I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9

[Mohamed Said]

I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9, Based on (Classilla).
features I will add + Classilla features
1- taps bar on the top (as default).
2- make noscript work only on (http) pages.
3- built in flash.
4 - make browser more lite on cpu

 

[Strategia]

Good luck!

 

[reukiodo]

This is a huge undertaking. Are you starting from the Classilla code base? Have you started to read through the code?

 

[Project Alice]

I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9, Based on (Classilla).
features I will add + Classilla features
1- taps bar on the top (as default).
2- make noscript work only on (http) pages.
3- built in flash.
4 - make browser more lite on cpu

This will be cool. Following!

 

[alex_free]

This will be cool. Following!

Agreed, I always wanted to do something like attempt to update Clasilla certificates (which wouldn’t fix TLS issues but would fix expired cert related ones).

 

[Imixmuan]

I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9, Based on (Classilla).
features I will add + Classilla features
1- taps bar on the top (as default).
2- make noscript work only on (http) pages.
3- built in flash.
4 - make browser more lite on cpu

Like putting a man on the moon using only surviving rockets and technology from the 1960s. Good luck, you will need it.

 

[Mohamed Said]

Thanks everyone

 

[Applicator]

sounds great, but why would you integrate flash?
I can only speak for myself, but I can't remember the last time I needed flash, plus it's been officially discontinued in December '20

 

[Mohamed Said]

sounds great, but why would you integrate flash?
I can only speak for myself, but I can't remember the last time I needed flash, plus it's been officially discontinued in December '20

There's alot of people like me want play old flash games.

 

[AphoticD]

I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9, Based on (Classilla).
features I will add + Classilla features
1- taps bar on the top (as default).
2- make noscript work only on (http) pages.
3- built in flash.
4 - make browser more lite on cpu

Looking forward to your progress!

I feel like work toward increased security protocol support (and certificate updates) would be the most beneficial as many sites no longer load at all.

Another thought; I wonder how much work would be required to Carbonize Classilla to make it run natively on both OS 9 and OS X (obviously pre-Tiger).

I was not involved in Carbon development, it was a bit over my head in terms of Mac dev.

Is there anyone out there who was involved in the OS 9 > Carbon > OS X migration back in the day who could contribute?

 

[Applicator]

There's alot of people like me want play old flash games.

ok, that makes sense, good luck

 

[Mohamed Said]

Looking forward to your progress!

I feel like work toward increased security protocol support (and certificate updates) would be the most beneficial as many sites no longer load at all.

Another thought; I wonder how much work would be required to Carbonize Classilla to make it run natively on both OS 9 and OS X (obviously pre-Tiger).

I was not involved in Carbon development, it was a bit over my head in terms of Mac dev.

Is there anyone out there who was involved in the OS 9 > Carbon > OS X migration back in the day who could contribute?

Classilla work on early mac osX verisons 10.1.5 to 10.3.9 (under classic mode)

 

[Macbookprodude]

I am working on a new Internet suite for mac os 9, Based on (Classilla).
features I will add + Classilla features
1- taps bar on the top (as default).
2- make noscript work only on (http) pages.
3- built in flash.
4 - make browser more lite on cpu

Make sure it will accept the new standards of TLS - I will support this if this can be done.. OS 9 should be able to render Wikipedia but so far it doesn’t !

 

[Macbookprodude]

Yes yes !!! Make OS 9 great again !

 

[Wowfunhappy]

For https, it would probably be best to set up a proxy on another machine. As I've been doing here for somewhat-less-old OS's, except with the proxy running on a router or a Raspberry Pi instead of on the same computer.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Raspberry pi is not a PowerPC Mac.

 

[Geezerviser]

Hey, such a great job. Good luck!

 

[Macbookprodude]

This will be cool. Following!

Lets make OS 9 Great again !

 

[Mohamed Said]

Thanks everyone for ideas

 

[Wowfunhappy]

Raspberry pi is not a PowerPC Mac.

You do you, but keep in mind your PowerPC Mac also doesn't handle IP routing or DNS resolution, so I really don't think offloading https to the router as well would be so apocryphal.

 

[r34per]

Man this would be awesome! Currently I use web rendering proxy for os9 browsing, but it'd be sweet to directly browse sites on os9. What are your target platforms out of curiosity? Are you mainly focusing on the G3,G4, etc cpus or should it work just as well on old world macs with the 603/4 cpus?

 

[Mohamed Said]

My project like Classilla target G3 and G4 CPUs, but my project is open source, you can -if you know c/c++- build on my project code a browser for (old world macs).

 

[Macbookprodude]

Man this would be awesome! Currently I use web rendering proxy for os9 browsing, but it'd be sweet to directly browse sites on os9. What are your target platforms out of curiosity? Are you mainly focusing on the G3,G4, etc cpus or should it work just as well on old world macs with the 603/4 cpus?

How did you do this ? What app to do this with ?

 

[Macbookprodude]

My project like Classilla target G3 and G4 CPUs, but my project is open source, you can -if you know c/c++- build on my project code a browser for (old world macs).

I am in support of this.. Lets make OS 9 great again !

 

[Mat MacOS9]

I am one of the users still working exclusively with a Mac OS 9. So a new webbrowser is highly appreciated. What is missing most at the moment are new certificates, so that ssl is working again, which is the biggest showstopper recently.

Also, if I may ask, Classilla is already a open source project, so why not simply starting committing code and perhaps working together with Cameron Kaiser?