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I use iCab Mobile, with which I am able to download any files and then open them with the appropriate applications.
I have no experience with editing google documents, however.
EDIT: Well, there you go.
Correct! Here's an historic article that verifies what you remembered:
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/icab-new-browser-structural-navigation/
iCab it is still one of the only functioning OSX browsers that supports older (vintage) Macs. You can download older versions for PPC Macs and even earlier models:
> I bet the only guy who can maintain iCab is the German who wrote it and unless he has introduced some inefficiency, by structuring his code, he will not want to maintain it through many upgrades.
http://www.icab.de Still developed.
The 520 has an AAUI ethernet port on the back; pick up this adapter (not my auction) and you can connect it to your network and get it online. With any luck you'll already have the TCP/IP stack and Netscape (!!!) installed, which is enough to leverage yourself into some newer software. iCab 2.9.9 is probably your best bet for a "modern" web browser. This page focuses on classic Mac emulation, but the software suggestions therein are suitable for your machine.
The 520 can run up to and including Mac OS 8.1. I have an ISO file of an 8.1 CD-ROM but that won't help you unless you also happen to have a SCSI CD-ROM drive with an appropriate SCSI adapter for the 520. I think 8.1 was available on floppy disk but I know I don't have those.
Your two big shortcomings are going to be the lack of a color screen, and possibly memory. The 520 supports anywhere from 4MB to 12MB (yes, megabytes) of memory and 4MB isn't a whole lot of fun. The built-in screen only does 4-bit grayscale and many games of the day specifically looked for an 8-bit display so you won't be able to fudge that — but you can connect an external monitor (832x624 max resolution) and get 8-bit color that way.
I'm not super familiar with why this would be happening but my guess is that it's overwriting any non_default_search_engine so that if it sees a foreign search engine, it replaces with the default fallback.
For mobile, have you tried Dolphin browser or iCab Mobile ? DuckDuckGo is an available option there.
Well, I have an adblocking browser right now, the Ghostery Browser, and yes it blocks ads. It's a piece of shit as a browser, but it blocks ads, as I have verified just now. :)
It looks like I'll have to qualify my earlier statements. You can't block ads in the rendering engine like you can on a desktop browser, but if you are willing to engage in some ugly and possibly fragile hackery involving creating a trick cache you can hack in a URL filter, for UIWebView anyway, and use that for your web blocker. I don't know if that's how Dolphin did it (or how Ghostery does it) but it does seem like the level of hackery you'd have to engage in to accomplish it.
This seems like the kind of tricky coding that is super clever (and honestly hella impressive that they pulled off) but which is going to stop working when Apple gets around to updating their API at some future point, which may be why Dolphin chose to get out of the "ad blocking browser for iOS" business.
And maybe (for all I know) that kind of hack doesn't work on WkWebView and people wanted to go to the newer WkWebView for its superior javascript engine.
I'm getting really handwavy here and I apologize for that, just speculating with the best knowledge I have. :)
iCab Blog - iCab Mobile/UIWebView and implementing support for file uploads
> In the web engine of the iOS there are several things which do not work. First of all the “file” button will be inactive and greyed out. So there’s no way to select a file in the first place. The web engine also isn’t able to add the file data to the HTTP request. This means iCab Mobile has to find a way to enable the “file” button so the user can select files or photos for the upload, and it has to include the data of the selected file into the HTTP request of the form.
only upgrading in terms of a piece of hardware you could possibly to do it is add more ram. Software-wise it's probably stuck at OS 10.4.11.
You could get an external mouse/fullsize keyboard and also the video adapter and plug it into a larger screen monitor just like your friend is doing. The video adapter thingie is called a mini-dvi to VGA adapter.
If you are using Safari as your web browser you can have an even speedier experience on that machine if you downloaded the web browser called iCab:
verison 4.9 is the one you'd want
download it and see if it feels different than using Safari on the same machine.
This site is a good place to find little gems of software that are compatible with that vintage of Macbook: