AmiBrowser: new modern web browser

[Twiggy]

Is there more information about how the browser works? Looking on various browser ID sites, it seems to suggest it's a Chrome based (138.0.0.0) browser running atop Arm based Linux with X11.

[SkulleateR]

Is there more information about how the browser works? Looking on various browser ID sites, it seems to suggest it's a Chrome based (138.0.0.0) browser running atop Arm based Linux with X11.

As far as I can see it´s using CEF (Chromium Embedded) on Linux side, so it catches Events on Amiga side, sends it via ARM library to Linux and the Linux side sends the rendered Page back to Amiga ...

Guess in reality it´s a bit more complex but I think that´s the base mechanism

[amigakit]

OSNews publishes article about the new AmiBrowser for the A1200 NG and A600 GS:

https://www.osnews.com/story/143070/amibrowser-the-chromium-engine-running-on-a-linux-host-talking-to-a-68k-amiga-application/

[ernsteiswuerfel]

I must say I am impressed with the speed of the browser and compatibility with my favorite pages & youtube! It seems to run snappier than Wayfarer on my MorphOS G5. Not magnitudes snappier, but noticeably nonetheless. I would not have expected that. Guess that's working in-browser JavascripJIT in Amibrowser vs. no JIT on Wayfarer... Youtube video playback itself is faster on my G5 though.

I know current Amibrowser is just a preview, but I noticed a few things not working or not yet implemented:

• PageUp/PageDown for scrolling text do not work.
• No Tabs (yet?)
• No Fullscreen mode (yet?)
• No in-browser pull down menues with right- or middle-klick (yet?)
• No Preferences (yet?)

[matt3k]

Funny thing years ago Jaca mentioned that offloading like Amibrowser was going to be the future of Wayfarer and many were complaining that they wanted it natively handled.

Perhaps he was ahead his time?   

Always nice to see new browsers and options.

[amigakit]

AmiBrowser is a modern browser for the A1200 NG and A600 GS.  Today our developer added downloading functions:

https://youtu.be/ubdD60O36AA


A user update will be coming later this week

[TribbleSmasher]

I know current Amibrowser is just a preview, but I noticed a few things not working or not yet implemented:

...

• No Preferences (yet?)

There is a text preferences file at least for the favorites button bar, not sure if this is the way forward.

[ernsteiswuerfel]

I noticed a problem with AmiBrowser when a german keymap is used.

It seems key combinations where CTRL or ALT is needed are filtered out in the AmiBrowser window. For the '@' character with german keymap I need to press  'ALT GR' + 'Q' on my german keyboard. This works in the shell, in Redit, in Finalwriter, etc. but not in the AmiBrowser window. Which is rather inconvenient as often email adresses are used as user names on various sites.  :'(

An easy workaround would be to just use American/British keymap and get the '@' via 'SHIFT' + 'ä' on german keyboards. But as I was 'smart' enough to use german umlauts like 'ß' in various passwords I need the german keymap for that reason... 

Is there a chance this can be fixed in the upcoming versions?

[broadblues]

I noticed a problem with AmiBrowser when a german keymap is used.

It seems key combinations where CTRL or ALT is needed are filtered out in the AmiBrowser window. For the '@' character with german keymap I need to press  'ALT GR' + 'Q' on my german keyboard. This works in the shell, in Redit, in Finalwriter, etc. but not in the AmiBrowser window. Which is rather inconvenient as often email adresses are used as user names on various sites.  :'(

An easy workaround would be to just use American/British keymap and get the '@' via 'SHIFT' + 'ä' on german keyboards. But as I was 'smart' enough to use german umlauts like 'ß' in various passwords I need the german keymap for that reason... 

Is there a chance this can be fixed in the upcoming versions?

I will look into it.
Do you have the german keymap set at A600GS/A1200NG  level or at AmiBench level?

[ernsteiswuerfel]

I will look into it.
Do you have the german keymap set at A600GS/A1200NG  level or at AmiBench level?

Tnanks!

Both. At A600GS level it's German + German No Dead Keys and at AmiBench level also German keymap.

With this setting German umlauts and key kombinations work as expected on Amibench. In AmiBrowser I do get umlauts like 'ö', 'ä', 'ß' where no key kombination is needed. But as soon I additionally need ALT or CTRL like for '@' it does not work.

[broadblues]

I haven't had time to dig into the code to see why yet, here in a shell 'ALT-s' produces 'ß' , but not in AmiBrowser.

Curiously though 'Alt-k' followed by 'u'  gives 'ü' both in shall and amibrowser