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Re: Amiga Browsers: What do you use and why?
« on: October 14, 2012, 10:54:43 PM »
I have the following web browsers installed on my MicroA1 system:
AWeb APL Lite 3.5.10
AmigaOS4 OEM version of IBrowse 2.4
NetSurf 2.8 graphics.library static build
Origyn Web Browser 3.31
MUI-OWB (Origyn Web Browser 1.9)
Timberwolf RC3

In the early days of OS4, I used AWeb and IBrowse.  As the others became available, I tried each public version as they were released.  Now I use mostly OWB 3.31 and NetSurf for my daily web browsing.

Each browser is unique.  Timberwolf uses too much RAM on my system, so I rarely use Timberwolf.  However, I do use all the others.

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Re: Amiga Browsers: What do you use and why?
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2012, 02:19:06 AM »
Quote from: chris;711462
Any reason you're still on 2.8?

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/amiga


I have used NetSurf 2.9 and like it alot, but I am still confused about SObjs files.  I keep wondering if one of the required SObjs files will be updated by another program or replaced by a software update to another program.  For example, do NetSurf and MUI-OWB use the same files?

For some reason, I thought that the static version of NetSurf 2.8 used less memory than NetSurf 2.9 uses.  After using NetSurf 2.9 more today, it appears that I was wrong.

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Re: Amiga Browsers: What do you use and why?
« Reply #2 on: October 17, 2012, 12:14:06 AM »
@chris

I tried several of the dev builds and every one croaked with a DSI error.

I'll use NetSurf 2.9 :)

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Update For some reason, the dev builds don't like URW Palladio fonts.
Launched ok after I got rid of the URW Palladio fonts ...
but launched fine after all fonts restored to normal.
Perhaps it finished scanning the fonts files after I got rid of the URW Palladio fonts ...
but I am not sure if it even scans the fonts files now after everything is back to normal.
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