Web Browser

[giZmo350]

For 68K Amigas, IBrowse is still the best of the bunch although very outdated and limited to 30 minutes use as they are no longer accepting registrations for it.

Yes, iBrowse is still the best... I use it on two different machines everyday! Takes some tweaking of cache settings for best results. Install AmiSSL too.

... limited to 30 minutes

Not true...  Google is your friend!

[giZmo350]

What I love about iBrowse it that it doesn't seem to use (almost) any chip ram to display pages. The more fast ram the better! You can load 20 web pages into tabs and AmigaOS could care less! Each page, in it's own tab, seems to be nothing more than a page cached in fast ram. None of this slows down the AmigaOS. And it seems to me that not any one "heavy" web page slows down any other web page when switching between tabs. Load up 20 tabs of pages on Internet Exploder and you're at a crawl - even on Win7! The only thing I've noticed is that if you have a bunch of tabbed pages open and you "Iconify" or minimize iBrowse, it will take a long time to re-render it all when you un-iconify - and sometimes make the system unresponsive. Other than that, you can't kill the system with webpages! It's actually quite interesting to watch the way iBrowse works - it just doesn't use up any ram hardly at all - and what fast ram it uses is only about 200/300 K per site - amazing.

[giZmo350]

Not sure if each tab is a separate process but it sure seems that way as one tabbed page won't kill another.

And who thought up that "multi-connection" process? Brilliant! With today's internet speeds and fast bus hardware you can crank up the connections as high as you want! Some websites respond great to multiple packet requests and will simply flood each connection with data! It's cool to watch! If modern browsers used that scheme I think the ISP police might knock at your door...  hahahaha.

I LOVE Firefox on my Mac Mini I know that!

I just use IE on Win7 cause, well, it's there...  and it's just a tool. No entertainment happens at work ya know!