Mozilla on OS 9
I’ve been spending a bit of time recently in OS 9 working on audio in Pro Tools Free. I had forgotten how much I loved this OS—despite the occasional crash. Even IE performs reasonably well. This morning on Photo Matt I came across WYSIWYG Pro, a standards-compatible, browser-based wysiwyg HTML editor. On their Requirements page I came across WaMCom, which provides builds of Mozilla for OS 9. It is built on an older version of Mozilla (1.3.1) but it has tabs and after hitting a couple of the regulars, everything appears to be in order as far as CSS support goes. Since the last significant update to this project was over a year ago this is probably old news but for me the timing couldn’t be better.
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Hmm… I don’t seem to recall what os9 looks like. Care to post a ss. All I’ve seen is 0SX, ‘cause I’m stuck using my friend’s mac ocassionally. I can’t afford my own :(.
I can’t imagine it being nearly as much fun without next (nextstep maybe?).
I thought there was a Mozilla version released for Macintosh, as well as Windows and Unix?
“Jonathan Fenocchi
I thought there was a Mozilla version released for Macintosh, as well as Windows and Unix?”
Yea but OS 9 way different to OSX.
The last I heard about this is that there were a few offical and unoffical builds for OS9 kicking around. Perhaps you could talk the Mozilla team to build FF for OS 9?
Jeff, here’s an old desktop screen shot of mine that I uploaded over at K10k (as was the fashion at the time).
Tom, no sense in hassling them about this—at least for me. These nostalgic visits are just temporary. I don’t know if I could design on this OS anymore. At least not on the old 350MHz G4.
For those of you that remember, imagine running OS 9 on a G5 with two gigs of RAM—you’d be unstoppable.
Shaun - that screenshot gave me a huge nostalgic goosebump, for a moment there I was dreaming my way back to the golden days of pixel designs and os9. I actually used mozilla back then, and I remember the first os9 beta builds.
I’m going to keep partying like it’s 1999 for the rest of the day.
Nice thing about WaMCom is that is also runs in classic. At work I keep an old clamshell ibook running VNC with Safari, IE OSX, IE OS9 (w/ flash 4), and WamCom as well. Since WaMCom is based on Mozilla 1.3, its the only way OS 9 users can use things such as htmlarea 3.
The only memories I have of OS9, are using it on terrible computers at school.
We’re stuck using OS 9 on our G4s at the college newspapers I work at until our management software gets upgraded to OS X.
While IE for OS 9 used to be a respectable browser, there are too many sites that don’t work with it now, it lacks popup blocking, etc.
I’d love to get Mozilla onto those computers for next semester if possible.
Using the OS9 1.31 Mozilla build allows you to run Gmail too.
In reference to WYSIWYG Pro, you might also be interested in the free, open-source FCKEditor .
With wamcom all seems to work fine, but i’ve some problems when i try to put more that 1 textarea in the same page… somebody “experience” this problems???
Hello, found this post via Google, and im just now surfing with Wamcom Mozilla, and it’s really the only browser on OS9 to use. IE is not able to get modern Websites to show correct…
But for me, Wamcom has got one bug: sometimes, when wamcom catches my cursor and I can’t type text into other applications, so i have to close wamcom, but semms that that’s all. I used it now for half a year…