Amiga Browsers: What do you use and why?

[chris]

I would use Netsurf or another browser but darkly Netsurf not work with native video Amiga modes.

I apologise for probably repeating myself from other threads, but I want to make this clear now, at the start of this thread, to avoid fire-fighting later.

There are three different versions of NetSurf for AmigaOS (there is also an old MorphOS version):

The 68k version is the "framebuffer" frontend, which is designed for no-GUI and debugging purposes only.  It is not particulary representative of other versions, and the use of framebuffer/SDL output means the hardware requirements are higher than they could be (eg. it needs RTG, whereas the OS4 version works on 8-bit modes)

There are two OS4 versions.  One is mine, which has a native GUI.  The other is the gtk version running under AmiCygnix (this is not a seperate download, it comes with AmiCygnix only).  The common OS4 version does not need AmiCygnix (I'm pointing this out because some people apparently thought it did).

Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

On OS4 I use NetSurf primarily, and MUI-OWB as a backup.

[chris]

NetSurf 2.8 graphics.library static build

Any reason you're still on 2.8?

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

[chris]

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?

I don't think MUI-OWB uses SObjs at all.  If any are updated NetSurf will continue to work fine provided there's no API breakage (which shouldn't happen if they are version-named correctly).

If you're worried about it you could always use a dev build, but they are liable to be unstable ("test builds" link on the usual download page)