You should be able to use your Apple gear as long as it helps you remain productive and meets your needs, upgrading only as necessary.

Some of them, like Flock, while they will work on a G3, require a G4 for decent performance.

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Anyone still using Mac OS X 10.2 cant run current versions of any of these browsers.

The app was slow to load, pages loaded slowly, and it was the only browser to not render my website home page properly, dropping the navigation pane to under the rest of the page.

I have used Camino on a number of systems, and the later versions (currently in beta stages) have been fabulous.

The added bonus of having hundred of plugins for everything you could think of, makes this a highly customisable browser.

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Its maker is one of the last software developers still making OS 9 software.

Pages loaded very quickly, even those that I hadnt been to before.

It is supposed to be a slimline Shiira, and Shiira in turn is a revamped Safari.

The app opened fine and was very quick, but halfway through rendering pages, it kept quitting.

Newer versions are Leopard-only, which considering you need a beast of a machine to run Leopard, you wouldnt be too worried about a lightweight browser.

I had never heard of it before this test, and I was very surprised by it.

The app loaded blindingly quick (within 2 Dock bounces), and the pages loaded extremely fast.

Pages are rendered fine, but the lack of support for WYSIWYG editing in eBay, and the random page drops makes it an unreliable browser.

Hopefully Apple will resolve these niggles and put Safari where it should be.

My wife had a G3 iBook 800 MHz with 640 MB of RAM, and Firefox 3 breezed on it, as fast as my Intel iMac running Leopard.

For very old G3s, look at Camino and Sunrise,; for faster G3s and low-end G4s, look at Camino and Firefox.

Fortunately there are still some developers writing with older machines in mind, and for this we are thankful.

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