NetSurf 3.7 released!

[utri007]

Anything new in OS3.5/9 version? Requirements doesn't mention guigfx and render libraries anymore?

To prevent hasle, those should be mentioned if required. Another thing, you could include them to Netsurf archive. Guigfx requires that Netsurf readme mentions it and render library is prety much free to include.

guigfx

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Render library

license

  render.library is released under the terms of a BSD-style
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  there is no need to change texts in existing software.

[utri007]

Works as always

Some speed has been lost. It takes about 50% more time to render amiga.org was 23 seconds, is now about 32-36 seconds. Amigaworld.net rendering time is about a same. It also seems to do something before and after page is loaded? About 5-10 seconds nothing happen in Netsurf information bar, no loading fetching etc. it just seems to wait something and same when page is loaded/displayed. With this effect it feels much slower than it used to be.

I also get one guru when I changet from amiga.org to amigaworld, but I couldn't reproduce it. Previously Netsurf has been very stable here.

Tested with both machines and several times.

[utri007]

I don't know why that would be.  I can't think of anything that has changed which would cause that.  The log file might provide a clue.

This message is repeated some 100x times and takes 72 second to move on?
(180.004997) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:58 ami_font_bm_open: (using current font)
This one only few times
(122.027104) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:102 ami_font_bm_open: font: helvetica.font/12

Starts (121.790181)
Ends (193.876583)

Same message starts again (201.677977) and ends (227.279296) users over 100 seconds to open same font when logging? That message is about 50% of all messages.

Fix fonts is of course runned when installed

[utri007]

How about this :

(31.495984) frontends/amiga/gui.c:3733 amiga_window_invalidate_area: Ignoring duplicate or subset of queued box redraw

It ends (33.325507) starts again (88.770177) and ends (92.919132)

(43.001307) content/llcache.c:1499 llcache_process_metadata: metadata error on line 3 error code 18

Same error about 30 times

[utri007]

I have lha version 2.12 and it gives me an error when I try to decompress the file "*** Error on file 'AutoInstall' : Unknown compression (need newer LHA version)".   I see a version 2.15, but the changelog didn't say anything about adding a new compression type. What version of LHA is needed to decompress the archive?

OS3.5/9 unarchiver should do the job. No need to use lha command.

[utri007]

Can you tell how longtakes render amiga.org with Netsurf and Vampire. That would tell practical performance diffrence to 68060 cpu. Previous version rendered amiga.org 23 seconds, this version 31 seconds.

[utri007]

Chris could you compile new beta Netsurf to your homepage (unsatisfacrysoftware.co.uk)current is  2dn of june.

I noticed that you have removed lgging from 68k vesion five days ago? I'm interested to know does it make difference?

[utri007]

I get a guru with this version :-(

Not very helpfull. Run netsurf from shell netsurf -v *>ram:ns_log.txt etc and send log to Chris and tell what kind of amiga you have? Remember add some stack to it before you run it.

Do you have guigfx and render libraries installed?