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Are there any browsers for Solaris 2.6?

I take pride in striving to live up to the "any browser" dream, but I've yet to test any on that platform.

You could search for an archived mirror of ftp.netscape.com. Like for example https://ftp.nluug.nl/netscape/communicator/english/4.77/unix...

HotJava (and an early version of Java itself) are available in the base system.

I haven't found Netscape on the installation CD yet, still digging through the available options.

HotJava doesn't like SSL/TLS so you can't do much with it other than attach to very, very simple websites that aren't encrypted. Using it as a jury-rigged file downloader works OK though.

Would https://github.com/tenox7/wrp work with it?

Trying it now. Seems a bit slow to be useable with hotjava (hotjava is a complete dog though). Been digging around looking for a binary of Netscape Communicator but no luck so far.

I do support HTTP, although currently it has to be HTTP/1.1. It came about around the same time as HotJava, 1997, so the earliest versions may not support 1.1, but I'd guess the later ones do.

If you have an opportunity, the URL is in my profile.

It would be amazing if you found the time to read and write something using that platform.

I'm planning to set up a 1.0-compatible node, if only for Mosaic and IE 2.0.

Not gonna lie, the URL frightens me :-)

Extreme compatibility exercises are not for the squeamish... Many tables and even un-closed <p> tags.

I got as far as the login page. How do I register?

Please use the username and password specified in my profile.

It is less of a login and more of a captcha-like device to keep out agressive crawlers, which have been a problem.

I do plan to improve on it so that it is not so opaque.

There is also IE5 and Outlook available. It apparently came with a primitive Windows compatibility layer: https://youtu.be/_AoyQeUzbEU

It is supposed to have a couple of emulations on it: Macintosh Application Environment and the WABI thing.

Waaaay back then I don't ever remember getting the MAE working and double clicking the icon just gets you a dead windows with a static watch icon.

WABI I can't even remember where to start looking for that. It should be able to run 16 bit versions of Excel although back then I was sure we had alternatives, Lotus 1-2-3 and maybe something called WingZ which I think came from the mac but was ported to Solaris and was hideously expensive. I might be misremembering that.

Solaris 2.6 came with Netscape Navigator on a CD.

I remember using HotJava.

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