Best browser for OS9.0.4,small drive dial up? Netscape 6 is killing me

Have recently upgraded from Netscape 4.8 because we were getting messages from web sites that we needed 128 bit encryption, browser was out of date. Netscape 6.2.3 is taking up so much of hard drive that it will not write mail box . This machine is used by 77 year old disabled father strictly for internet and e-mail so will not be upgrading to OS X. Any advice on which browser would be best in this situation would be appreciated.
Thanks

Couldn't speak to the encryption issue but I'm using IE5.i.7 successfully on my PB3400. Though I stuck in a 40G drive when the original froze, I did quite well w/ that original 2G, so I'd say if your 6G (if I'm reading aright) is full, it's maybe time to prune some of the deader wood. Sherlock can help you find document files unmodified for years , or all the "Readmes" and does your guy really need all his old emails—and, more to the point their attachments?

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