Updating a badly out-of-date browser

Not sure where else to post this. Recently acquired an old G4 with OS X 10.1 on it, and need to update the woefully out-of-date browser, Internet Explorer 5.1.2 for Mac. It's so obsolete I can't even download Firefox through it. The drop-down from Tools does not offer an update function, and I couldn't find one elsewhere. Can anyone offer any help?

Try the appropriate version of iCab. icab.de
try this link for icab your are looking for iCab305_OSX.sit:
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/Mac/iCab/
requires osx 10.1.5
Opera
http://www.opera.com/browser/download/requirements/
http://www.opera.com/download/
You can download the file on any machine & copy to the mac. Do not try to unpack on windows. flash drive shold work fine. format for fat32 / dos.
The current version of firefox will not run on this os. You are going to have to find an older version. Firefox folks make it hard to find the library with archive software. It's around.
Mac OS 9
Perhaps this runs in x. Classilla is a free, open source browser for Mac OS 9
classilla.org
Robert

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