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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: takemehomegrandma on September 01, 2011, 05:26:44 PM
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The porting of Fab's webkit based browser (today known as Odyssey) to OS4 is now completed, and released as a public beta.
This port, known by the OS4 crowd as "MUI-OWB", brings version 1.9 of the browser to OS4, and the port was made by Kas1e. There might still be bugs present, and not all features are yet implemented, but Kas1e decided it was better to release it now "as-is", instead of waiting. Work will continue to iron out the bugs and finish the missing features, and then sync it with Fab's latest release of Odyssey, which currently is at version 1.14.
Download: http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=network/browser/muiowb.lha
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Excellent. My OS4 system just got boatloads more usable. I'll try it out tonight.
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More information is available here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6062
Some initial comments available here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=34169&forum=32
This progress is really good news! :)
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A 68k port would be more interesting.
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Work will continue to iron out the bugs and finish the missing features, and then sync it with Fab's latest release of Odyssey, which currently is at version 1.14.
For a hint of what improvements to expect as the port syncs with the latest Odyssey, you can always have a look at the history in the readme:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.14.readme
:)
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For a hint of what improvements to expect as the port syncs with the latest Odyssey, you can always have a look at the history in the readme:
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.14.readme
:)
It will be interesting to see the differences (speed, overall behaviour) between the MorphOS original and the OS4.1 port on my Pegasos II. :D
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nicholas: OWB for 68k amigas would be useable only with under UEA or AmiAthlon
Still modern broser for 68k amigas, only realistic possibility is Netsurf
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It will be interesting to see the differences (speed, overall behaviour) between the MorphOS original and the OS4.1 port on my Pegasos II. :D
Cool! "The same" SW on *the same* HW! :)
http://fabportnawak.free.fr/owb/owb-morphos-1.9.lha
:)
(Maybe you should wait for a more mature version from kas1e though? :) )
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nicholas: OWB for 68k amigas would be useable only with under UEA or AmiAthlon
That's why I want it.
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Excellent. My OS4 system just got boatloads more usable. I'll try it out tonight.
Give us a review of the improvements you notice, compared to the previous OWB for OS4 releases.
Nice to see some cooperation between OS4 and MorphOS2.x camps.
You are a great resource and asset Fab, and apparently a great human being too!
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Fab, you are awesome. OS4 has gotten better for its users. Congrats guys
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Good news, thanks much! Will grab it and try it on my freshly installed u3 SAM 440ep.
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Give us a review of the improvements you notice, compared to the previous OWB for OS4 releases.
Nice to see some cooperation between OS4 and MorphOS2.x camps.
You are a great resource and asset Fab, and apparently a great human being too!
+1 regarding the Fab comment.
I can give you my little review while you wait. First of all it feals faster in pretty much everything. The other thing is that the GUI is way nicer with bookmarks in the menu, sidebar, a good download manager which reminds of the one found in IBrowse, and GUI for everything regarding settings, handling cookies and whatever you would expect from a modern browser.
RAOWB on the other hand feals a lot more clunky, the few config options available are set by tooltypes, the tool for bookmarks opens a window with a list of URLs, and the menu options are for copy/paste text, zooming, open files localy and not much else. It feals like it got a long way to go before it's completed while with MUI-OWB it feals completed.
More speed + nice GUI = very nice browser. I've always loved IBrowse so how can I not like this? I enjoy using it more than for example Firefox on my PC (or any other browser for that matter) so I'm really happy right now.
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as soon as someone ports it to aros we will get it on 68k for free.
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Will this run without the new update 3? of OS4?
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It will be interesting to see the differences (speed, overall behaviour) between the MorphOS original and the OS4.1 port on my Pegasos II. :D
I've done exactly that, I did a quick test this morning on my Peg II and found it to be pretty fast, faster than original release for MorphOS (Yep, I'm a MorphOS user as well). That's just a quick first impression...
Cheers,
Dragster
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Will this run without the new update 3? of OS4?
No, there where changes made to MUI that comes with update 3, it won't work without them.
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I've always loved IBrowse so how can I not like this? I enjoy using it more than for example Firefox on my PC (or any other browser for that matter) so I'm really happy right now.
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Wait for the OS4 port to mature! ;)
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Give us a review of the improvements you notice, compared to the previous OWB for OS4 releases.
Nice to see some cooperation between OS4 and MorphOS2.x camps.
You are a great resource and asset Fab, and apparently a great human being too!
For those who haven't seen this, here is a video that compares RAOWB and MUI-OWB.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq6zysdtJC8
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big thanks to Fab & Roman:drink::banana::drink::banana:....now to bring on Timberwolf too :)
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big thanks to Fab & Roman:drink::banana::drink::banana:....now to bring on Timberwolf too :)
I'm thinking that they got a big job to do to make it feal as good and amiga-like as this. Will be interesting.
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Very good, although still having some bugs here and there, it will surely replace my old OWB installation.
The download speed with MUIOWB feels slower than with IBrowse, but I downloaded from different websites on this video, which can be the reason.
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Thank you kas1e for this browser and your time!
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as soon as someone ports it to aros we will get it on 68k for free.
Do you know if anyone is working on it yet?
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It's great to see developers being more open-minded than some of the end-users :)
I'll look forward to trying this out later.
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Do you know if anyone is working on it yet?
not that i know, alas.
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Posting using "MUI-OWB" for OS4. The general operation reminds me of IBrowse. I like the download progress window and setup features. I am currently using the fonts that come with OS4.
Thanks to all involved. I have some more web sites to visit.
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redfox
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Wait for the OS4 port to mature! ;)
You can bet that I will follow this every step on the way :-) . I thought that it would be good but you can't understand how good it is untill you use it I think.
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I'm thinking that they got a big job to do to make it feal as good and amiga-like as this. Will be interesting.
you might be right on that but it's damn great to have options for a great modern browser under AmigaOS:)
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Excellent. My OS4 system just got boatloads more usable. I'll try it out tonight.
Couple days late in getting this tested, but, wow! To everyone involved, excellent work! Looking forward to seeing this fully in sync with the MorphOS version.
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A 68k port would be more interesting.
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Seriously though, Id love a better browser for my amithlon box. Between Aweb, Voyager, IB, Netsurf and existing OWB (which is acually semi usable (albiet requires pages to load before you can interact at all)) a person can almost make do, but making do isnt always a lot of fun :)
An updated browser for "real" 68k amigas would be great to have as well, but less likely to happen given how heavy a lot of web content is these days (ergo the tech. behind it requires more grunt than a real 68k amiga can provide). Something a bit more modest should still be doable, but I dont think fab's OWB is the best option for that.