For Mac OS X users: Safari is Apple's included web browser. Firefox and Opera are FREE web browsers. There's also Camino, a Mac OS X-only browser based on Mozilla technology.
WaMCom is a Mozilla-based browser for Mac OS 9 (Classic)
OmniWeb, one of the last commercially sold browsers, is a Mac OS X-only alternative.
If you absolutely "need" IE, Mac users will still be able to use IE5 (IE for Mac OS X) (IE for Mac OS 8.1-9.x), and it will probably run under the Rosetta emulation for the forthcoming Macs based on Intel processors. Another alternative is running Internet Explorer via Windows inside Microsoft's Virtual PC.
For Mac OS 9.x users (because they have slow old machines)
a pretty reliable alternative is Mozilla Wamcom
at http://wamcom.org/
Version 1.3.1
Old but will work where OLD IE fails.
Direct link to the download alternatives is
http://wamcom.org/latest-131/
but good to read the front page first.
In Safari, I get this whiney little notice every 15 minutes that says "Do you really want to stay connected??!!!?"
I looked in preferences for the off switch and can't find it. Where is the off switch hiding?
"The lack of support for IE is unlikely to be an issue for Apple users"
I don't know why. It's not an issue for Windows users.
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Let's not forget iCab!
http://www.icab.de/
NJ, For Mac users, there is also http://www.icab.de Icab out of Germany. Peace and love, George.