@CritAnime
How long does a developer/publisher have to not give a notice of discontinuation before software enters that grey area of Abandonware?
If your own moral compass is broken and doesn't show these things to you, then I'd say that when a great numbers of years has passed without product being on sale, without development, when the IP owner obviously doesn't care and has simply left the scene many years ago, and all means of communications and support that previously worked does no work since many years (reseller chain, product web page, developers e-mail, etc). Then after many years (is it a decade in this case?) when people (more than a few) independently of each others starts talking about "is it abandonware" because of one or more reasons above, then it probably is. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, chances are it's a duck...
Personally I would be inclined to say not to crack it. You never know if the development is in some form of hibernation.
The discussion is about
v2.4 and nothing else, and this version is not sold and hasn't been sold for years and years. Should they release a v3.0 or something in the future (not very likely at all, I am certain it's pretty solidly abandoned now), then of course you should re-evaluate its features (CSS3? HTML4/XHTML? HTML5? Javascript engine? etc, etc) against its price, and buy that one if you want it and like it. But again, that's
not what this discussion was about...
I don't think we'll ever see a viable browser for 68k Amigas with the *essential* features like those I mentioned above. It's completely unrealistic. It will be way too complex and heavy SW for way too limited, under-powered and old HW to handle. It will probably be worse than "Timberwolf" on a Sam440 by a factor of 50 or more, it will be unusable. If you are into
retro Amiga (which many people here are), then use it for what it is, i.e. having fun with your museum objects, playing the old games on floppies, using the old apps, etc. Don't expect it to become modern, because it won't. That's why we have the "NG" systems like MorphOS. And on MorphOS you can run the
Odyssey browser, which is heavily inspired by how IBrowse looked and functioned. It has all the essential features I mentioned above (it even beats Internet Explorer 9 in both CSS3/HTML5 features and overall performance), on top of that it has all the features you could wish for, and everything completely in the IBrowse style, so I'd dare to say that had IBrowse ever been evolved into a 2012 level browser, it would be pretty close (even an exact match) to what
Odyssey is on MorphOS today.
Odyssey is IBrowse
done right! 
@Colmiga
I registered my copy of MUI in May 2010 and Stefan replied to me in a few days with a key
But MUI is anything but dead, it's very much under development, so it can't be compared to Ibrowse in any way...
