anyone kknow a good free web-browser for mac? i have IE 5.1 and i know i heard something about some browsers being better on mac cause Microsoft hates mac so any suggestions would be helpful my email is actordtl@hotmail.com

MS does not hate mac. The mac platform is a huge customer base for MS applications, and connectivity to MS held internet holdings, so it is in MS best interests to do a good job in development for mac apps. I use IE5 on my g4-9.04. I prefer it to Netscape. The pickle prefers iCab, and I have been experimenting briefly with OPERA which looks pretty good now.

Yep, iCab is far better than MSIE. MSIE is the "best of the rest," so to speak, IMO. Opera is decent but very overrated, and it costs $40 to get rid of the outrageously large ads they put on your screen. Netscape 6.x/Mozilla is intolerably slow on anything below a 400MHz G3. Netscape 4.x has horrid HTML standards support and needs to crawl in a hole and die, besides being buggy and slow. You'll probably find yourself happiest with iCab as your main browser and IE 5.1 as a backup for sites that have HTML code that chokes iCab. (ESPN is an example; their HTML is far from anything standard and won't display remotely legibly in iCab but works fine in IE, which is much more forgiving with nasty code.) p