15 minutes of web browsing on my Amiga

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And I was wondering when I got to try it on my 68030 :lol:

It's built without optimisations, there's some very non-optimal code (eg. bitmaps are pushed back via datatypes), and the text is rendered using outline fonts* (which are dead slow on 68k).

I've had it running on 020/AGA at actual speed on an emulator here and it's not much slower - because the screen resolution is less, it has much less work to do to redraw the visible portion of the page.

Help needed to improve it.

* you can switch to bitmap fonts with the following config lines, this makes scrolling on my emulated '020 tolerable:
use_diskfont:1
font_sans:Topaz
font_serif:Topaz
font_mono:Topaz
font_cursive:Topaz
font_fantasy:Topaz

I also use:
redraw_tile_size_x:100
redraw_tile_size_y:100
window_simple_refresh:1

[chris]

OK, that explains which OS it is. Netsurf must have been promoting itself for AmigaOS 4 although that version was for OS 3.x

The OS4 version is a release version.
The OS3 version is an alpha test build only.

To confuse matters more, there is also Artur's version "NetSurf68k", in various flavours which is built on the Framebuffer frontend.
There is also a build of the GTK frontend which runs on OS4 AmiCygnix.