KennyR: OK, I agree with you!! Crashed within 20 seconds of running
it here, but a second time seemed to run a *BIT* better.
In short, I wasn't overly impressed by V 3.3.125.
Aside from the fact it contains a few very minor bugfixes, it's far less stable than version 3.3.122 which I have been running since about March.
It appears to be a bit faster at image decoding/layout, but it might have been me dreaming.
It seems more willing to do more complicated Javascript things. Starts to do them, then crashes badly. So a number of detailed Javascript based sites still don't work, for example AirNZ online flight booking.
Most of the SSL encrypted online banking still works fine with my bank, though there are still the same layout errors.
It crashed without any reason on common sites I never have problems
on, such as Amiga.org as well as a number of "simpler" ones.
Haven't tried it on an 8 bit screen (I refuse to) but it had the same problem on 16 and 24 bit screenmodes.
Quoted from the Readme, the bugfixes from version 3.3.122 to 3.3.125 are:
- Imgdec: transparent images could have their background not refreshed
properly (Zapek)
- General: V wouldn't execute any external command when being started from CLI
(Zapek)
- General: disabled single window mode since it is the cause of 99% of peoples'
experienced crashes. It'll be back when it works (Neko)
- JS: fixed crash happening with some "popup" windows, thanks to Henes (Zapek)
- Layouter: pen allocation precision was slightly wrong (Zapek)
- GUI: more efficient prefspage switching (Zapek)
- Net: fixed some possible buffer overflows in POST requests (Zapek)
- General: fixed small internal memoryleak which could happen with some custom
context menus (Zapek)
- JS: fixed V.MorphOS crashing on most string from real datatype conversions,
libc bug (Zapek)
- General: no longer barfs when Busy.mcc isn't installed (Zapek)
- General: no longer barfs when Listtree.mcc isn't installed (Zapek)
- Network: added SSL support to the MorphOS version (Zapek)
The single window mode one was obvious that it never worked even slightly, so no one ever used it anyway.
Another strange thing I noticed:
Compiliation date of 3.3.122 = 9/3/2002
Compiliation date of 3.3.125 = 2/5/2002
So it's been done since about May, but only now have they released it. Could it be that since the next version of IBrowse is about to be released, the V3 team decided:
"Uh-oh, the current V3 beta has timed out, and IB are about to do a release, quick do something!"
"But we've only got this less stable version with a number of insignificant bugfixes..."
"That'll do, we'll release that!!"
Personally I reccommend sticking with 3.3.122 in the meantime, I'm
using it again now.
It's usually quite stable, even though it does have that annoying
"beta version timeout" requestor on startup. Hopefully they'll
actually make some IMPROVEMENTS on the next release!!!! I've posted a
number of detailed bug reports AGES ago which still seem to have been
ignored.
Other things frustrate me with regard to features going missing. For
example one of the earlier versions had a nice text search ability
which has been missing for a while, the "save as ASCII text"
feature doesn't work, "Save image as.." doesn't work, the printing
never has worked (I think?) or at least not properly. plus lots of
other little things.
Seriously, I know writing a prog such as V3 would be a mammoth task,
one that I could never hope to do myself. But I find it very annoying
that over so much time, that there has been so little apparent
development/improvements.
So KennyR, I really hope you are not mistaken with the next release
Anthony.
