How can I update the Internet Explorer on a Powermac G3?

Question

It's running Mac OS 8.5.1. and I recently took this beautiful machine out of the closet and tried getting it up and running again just to mess around with. But when I try to use Internet Explorer (4.01) I get a message saying "A script error occured. Some scripts on the affected page may not work correctly. Do you want to continue running scripts on the affected page?" Can this maching handle Safari? If not, how can I update IE as the furthest it can handle?
And on a sidenote, I want to update the software as far as possible as well as clear the hard drive of all that old unecessary junk, does anyone know what to do or how to handle that? I don't have any of the old disks to use.

Answer 1

OK, thanks for the info.
I still have this model ( not active) still laying around.
How far do you want to go?
I'll suggest the max upgrades you can do to this Mac.
If you want to get the absolute most out of this Mac, these Macs had removable, upgradeable CPU ZIF cards.
Search eBay to see if there are any of these available for the old G3.
A company called Sonnet Technologies offered ZIF upgrades for the G3 such as G3 500 MHz ZIF cards, 1 Ghz ZIF card as well as a G4 1 Ghz ZIF card upgrade.
If you want to ry and install OS X, on these old machines, OS X had to fit on the first 8 GBs of the main drive.
A 6 GB drive won't leave a lot of left over room aftef installing OS X.
I believe your Mac can take up to any internal EIDE drive size under 128 GBs in size.
You can still by this size of drive new. You would need to create an OS X partition that is slightly under 8 GBs in size as a boot partition for OS X. The other partition/s can be what you want them to be.
You can also improve the Macs video card.
If you want to improve this Mac's video, again turn to eBay. Look for the Original ATI Radeon Mac Edition card.
No ATI number. This was considered the best and fastest card for that series Mac.
There was another card, The ATI Radeon 7200 Mac Edition card. This card while have more VRAM, was considered a slower video card. It does work, though in this model Mac.
Another thing you can add to the PCI slots, USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 cards.
I used cards from a company called Adaptec.
Adaptec made combo USB 2.0/FireWire Combo PCI card or seperate PCI cards for both USB 2.0 and FW.
Again, eBay is your friend.
Another PCI card that would be handy. You can have faster Ethernet by installing a PCI 10/100 Ethernet card into this ole' gem.
If you can find full retail versions of OS X 10.2 Jaguar and/or OS X 10.3 Panther, you can have OS X up and running on this Mac and have a capable Mac up and running with the Internet with some success.
Here's a link to OS X 10.3 Panther on CD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0000E6NK9/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&conditi on=new
http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=10_5_7&products_id=202
Here is a link for OS X 10.2 Jaguar on CD
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00006F7S2/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condit ion=used
Here's another link to the ATI video card you can upgrade to
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00005QVMC/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condit ion=used
This will give you an idea of just how far upgrading this Mac you could go.
Amazon and eBay are your friend.