Alternative to iBrowse on OS3.2?

[chris]

There is a several versions of Netsurf for a 68k Amiga.

Official is here https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/amigaos3/

It is badly broken, bitmap fonts code is broken, menus has a problems, etc. it has also lost it's speed after 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZueeEUIazNM

Use this version, SSL actually works on it: https://www.cy2.uk/netsurf.lha https://aminet.net/package/comm/www/netsurf_os3

Whether it works reliably is another matter. It's pretty stable on my MiSTer, provided the latest AmiSSL is installed. Others have reported problems.

[chris]

Oh yes, sorry, the one on Aminet is the working version for OS3: https://aminet.net/package/comm/www/netsurf_os3

[chris]

Unfortunately this version is broken on AOS3 the picture/background rendering is completely broken.
Pity as its the first netsurf for AOS3 that has a proper menu with Preferences etc..
The only versions that are *almost* working onn AOS are 3.10 that is very slow and 3.9. both are crashing demons thought. It is very difficult to browse more than 3-4 pages without stop responding with my PiStorm32 with Pi3A+
From the other hand its the only browser on AOS3 that support CSS, ibrowse 3 is a polished amiga browser but lucking CSS makes the price for me not worthy. otherwise I would bought it in a heartbeat.

I know it's unhelpful but it "works here". Images are generally broken on 8-bit screen modes, but still useable.

It's still labelled as a beta for a reason!

If you can track down the problems you are having then patches will be welcome. However I'm not seeing most of the issues here that others are - which makes it difficult to debug.

[chris]

I'm using stock caffeine OS with Pistorm32, screen mode is 1024x768 32bit via videocore RTG. Is there a page where I can send a bug report? I'm back on the amiga after a decade and I have excitement to help wherever I can.

Here is the correct place: https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org

Any crash logs and the output from "netsurf -v" will be helpful.

What do you mean by "stock caffeine OS"?

[chris]

It’s like CoffinOS found on the Vampire Cards but it’s for the PiStorm. It will be a bespoke build of Amiga OS 3.9. With a load of extras. So nothing vanilla about it.

Ah, in that case I can say "not supported", you're on your own.

AmigaOS 3.9 should work.  AmigaOS 3.2.2.1 should work.  But either of those with a ton of extra patches and hacks I wouldn't expect to work correctly.  Even the plain versions of 3.9 and 3.2 are temperamental.  I want to rebuild it with the 3.2 NDK and (if necessary) ditch 3.9, to see if that makes it more stable - the classes can then work more or less exactly as they do in OS4 so it should help.  But the NDK won't work properly in my build environment currently.