On: Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on

[scarface74]

No, modern browsers aren’t crash prone. They are just memory hogging, battery killing monstrosities - except for Safari.

[musicale → scarface74]

Web browsers have definitely progressed:

In the bad old days you'd have to restart your web browser because it crashed.

Now you have to restart your web browser because it has consumed all system resources, spun up the fans to maximum, and slowed performance to a crawl.

And those weekly severe security vulnerabilities don't crash your browser anymore - they just enable it to be taken over by criminals.

[scarface74 → musicale]

Netscape would crash the entire Mac pre OS X back in the day. I didn’t have any such issues with Adobe, Aldus, or Microsoft software.

While MS did do some crazy stuff to kill Netscape, IE was just a better browser.

IE 3.0 for the Mac was native code and the most standards compliant browser in existence for awhile.

[KerrAvon → musicale]

You really need to consider Safari instead if that’s how bad it is with Chrome etc.

[Bluecobra → musicale]

In the bad old days, you would have to restart your computer as well. I remember Netscape frequently crashing back in the day and that bomb icon from Mac OS System 7.