NetSurf 3.10 web browser released

[chris]

NetSurf 3.10 features many fixes, better performance and improved functionality. In particular, handling of authentication, certificates and fetch errors have been updated and unified. We recommend all users upgrade to NetSurf 3.10.

A new feature is the page info display which may look familiar to users of mainstream browsers!



Download (AmigaOS 4)
Equivalent AmigaOS 3 beta will be available on Aminet shortly.

Changelog:

NetSurf 3.10
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### Core / All platforms

* Improved handling of NetSurf generated queries and errors, including:
  - Timeouts.
  - Authentication requests.
  - Certificate problems.
* Created consistent visual style for NetSurf Core generated content.
* HTML layout fix for {min|max}-width on replaced elements.
* Improved keyboard navigation.
* Improved local history with keyboard navigation and improved display.
* Fixed mouse interaction issue when entire document had visibility:hidden.
* Refactoring of the browser window handling.
* Refactoring of the HTML content handler.
* Refactoring of SSL certificate handling.
* Refactoring of HTML, text search and selection code.
* Many improvements to JavaScript robustness.
* Many new and improved Duktape JavaScript bindings.
* Improved core/front end interface for content scaling.
* Much improved content caching, both in memory and disc caching.
* Added a generic hashmap, used by the disc cache code.
* Fetcher improvements for robustness and performance.
* Updated JavaScript engine to Duktape 2.4.0.
* Improved handling of aborted fetches.
* Improved integration testing with framework built around monkey front end.
* Improvements to monkey front end to make testing more extensive and reliable.
* Minor HTML form improvements.
* Minor HTML handler optimisations.
* Fixes to HTML handler for robustness.
* Refactoring generation of about: pages.
* Fixed save complete not to save multiple copies of the same files.
* Change how animated GIFs are rate-limited to be in line with other browsers.
* Added a page info core window.
* Clamping screen DPI to a sensible range.
* Initial work towards supporting HTML5 canvas element.
* Various treeview fixes.

* Hubbub library 0.3.7 (HTML parser):
  - Minor code quality improvements.
  - Fixes for some HTML5 element handling.

* LibCSS library 0.9.1 (CSS parser and selection engine):
  - Fixed a problem in the parsing of invalid media blocks.
  - Minor code quality improvements.

* LibDOM library 0.4.1 (Document Object Model):
  - Improved HTML TextArea element handling.
  - Fix SubtreeModified event to be fired after updating attribute values.
  - Support finalising the namespace strings.
  - Basic support for keypress events.
  - Improvements to event dispatch event lifetime handling.
  - Support for InnerHTML.
  - Added support for HTMLCanvasElement.
  - Minor code quality improvements.
  - Fixed HTMLElement property setters.
  - Fixed HTMLTitleElement text getter/setter.

* LibNSBMP library 0.1.6 (BMP support):
  - Minor code quality improvements.

* LibNSLog library 0.1.3 (Filterable logging):
  - Added support for short log level names.

* LibWapcaplet library 0.4.3 (String internment):
  - Free global context if no strings leak.
  - Enabled build with toolchains that don't support statement expressions.

### AmigaOS-specific

* Added Page Info icon and window.
* Updated to improved core content scaling interface.
* Add support for scrolling core windows in response to core requests.
* Allow running JavaScript from ARexx.
* Removed login window because it's now handled by the core.

Also included are many smaller bug fixes, improvements and
documentation enhancements.

[chris]

It's there at that link now (it's just the automated build snapshot from the point 3.10 was released).

[chris]

I hade a weird loggin experiment.

(3.572484) [INFO netsurf] content/handlers/image/image_cache.c:432 image_cache_init: Image cache initialised with a limit of 3145728 hysteresis of 629145
(3.621825) [INFO netsurf] content/handlers/html/css_fetcher.c:71 html_css_fetcher_initialise: html_css_fetcher_initialise called for x-ns-css
(3.666906) [INFO netsurf] content/fetchers/curl.c:1691 fetch_curl_register: curl_version libcurl/7.68.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1d zlib/1.2.11

It always ends that, no further logging and when I exit it screen flashes green and back to OS. System freeses and I'm forced to reboot.

OS3 or OS4?  Is it working after those messages, because it sounds like it might be?

[chris]

This is what I got on my OS4 machine

(0.000006) [ERR  netsurf] content/fs_backing_store.c:1465 initialise: read control failed InitFailed

It works, starting might b e little slow.

That might be normal.  The disk cache format has changed so it recreates it on startup.  If it does it every time you might want to delete the cache manually (in users/{user} somewhere)

[chris]

Also, does AmiSSL have to be installed with NetSurf? Or does Netsurf have all that stuff built in.

I think that you needs to download and install amissl

Yes, but only on OS3.  On OS4 it uses a built-in OpenSSL.