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Classilla requires a PowerPC and CarbonLib, and this machine is an emulated 68040. The best browser you can get is probably iCab, but even then it won't display many modern pages. Think of how many sites require TLS 1.2 to do anything at all.


Think of how many sites require TLS 1.2 to do anything at all.

...and then think of how there's no theoretical reason why TLS 1.2, 1.3 or any crypto, really, won't work on such a processor; the practical reason is that no one has really spent the effort to create/port such an implementation.


> won't work on such a processor; Eh, I think SSH clients for OS8 existed. http://www.heilancoo.net/MacCVSClient/MacCVSClientDoc/ssh-cl... http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/macos.html




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