Internet web browser....

[stefcep2]

I actually took my advice and used IBrowse in Winuae.  It is slower at rendering pages, mostly due to lengthy javascipt (which you can shorten), but also due to the way in which images(mainly gifs and jpegs) are downloaded and then decoded.  However the cache is a real time saver when moving back and forth between pages.  Amiga.org is rendered just the same as in firefox, ebay works, but pages are not dispalyed the same, banking works fine but again pages are not displayed the same, some commercial tv sites are not rendered right but work and i can do all the things on those sites, such as log into forums,buy things etc.  I think your set up eg ssl must be preventing you from using many sites. But yes it is slower

[redfox]

@Malakie

I hope you received some answers to your original question.

Anyways ... as you may have guessed by now, your choices depend on what Amiga environment you are running.  For classic Amiga with no PPC, you are looking at AWeb, IBrowse and Voyager.  Back in the day, I used AWeb on my Amiga 2000HD over a 19.2 Kbps dialup ppp connection to my ISP.  Needless to say, it was very slow.  I had my browser set to "don't load" images. Aweb would place a blue square (image link?) where the image would normally be and I could click on the square if I really wanted to see a particular image.  My machine had a 68000 CPU (no accelerator card), so the images were quite grainy.

On my MicroA1 running OS4, I use AWebPPC, IBrowse and OWB.  OWB has improved to the point where I use it most, but I still use IBrowse for certain sites and AWeb for certain sites.

Not sure for emulated amiga running on a pc.  Three x86 pc's at home here, but no amiga emulator running on any of them.  I would probably try IBrowse or AWeb (maybe both).

(Of course, for an emulated amiga running on a pc, there is always the alternative of using the browsers available for the "host" operating system ... it all depends on what you want to do.  If you like firefox or IE better ... go for it.  It is your machine and your fun that is at stake, and noone else has the right to say you are wrong.)

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redfox

[Malakie]

Redfox:

Yea I got the answers I was looking for.  :-)   Not what I was hoping for but not much I can do about that..

Malakie

[redfox]

Hi all,

Just trying out a new version of OWB, Origyn Web Browser version 2.5 installed about 20 minutes ago.  So far seems ok on my MicroA1.  Posting with it now.

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redfox

[Malakie]

Do you have an URL for that by chance?

[InTheSand]

Hi,

See this thread for comments on the 68K version, and here for the OS4 version.

Not tried either. I agree with the previous poster(s) that Amiga web browsing in general is one of those "because I can!" things, and not for day to day use unless visiting lightweight sites or PDA-enabled sites.

 - Ali

[redfox]

OWB can be downloaded from http://strohmayer.org/ which might be off the air at the moment.

The main support site seems to be www.amigans.net where the author converses with several users.  There are also some threads on www.amigaworld.net

The latest version, OWB 2.5 is not a standalone product yet, so some files are required from an earlier version.  The readme file gives details as to which files are required.  They are called sobjects.  OWB 2.5 will not run without them.

If I recall correctly, OWB 2.5 is PPC only.  Not sure how well it operates on a classic Amiga with PPC but it seems to work fine here on my MicroA1.

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redfox

[TiredOLife]

@Malakie

Try Netsurf available at Aminet

[DBAlex]

@TiredOfLife

OS4 only...

 :-(

OWB doesn't help people on 68K, its too slow to be usable for almost anything... unless you like browsing to feel like waiting for a 3D model to render...

IBrowse, AWeb & even Voyager are still the only real options on classics -- and all 3 are pretty much the same standards wise.

Sputnik is a another choice if you have MorphOS...  :-)

[redfox]

Origyn Web Browser (OWB) is changing fast.  This is OWB 2.6.  Looking good so far.

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redfox

[Malakie]

InTheSand wrote:
Hi,

See this thread for comments on the 68K version, and here for the OS4 version.

Not tried either. I agree with the previous poster(s) that Amiga web browsing in general is one of those "because I can!" things, and not for day to day use unless visiting lightweight sites or PDA-enabled sites.

 - Ali

Hi,

I downloaded the version at the url's you posted.  But I am not able to find a link anywhere for v1.3.  The only version I could find is 1.24.  Do you or does anyone else have a link to the latest?


EDIT:  Ok perhaps I am missing something in my reading...  This browser is ONLY for OS4.0 and NOT available for OS3 users?


Malakie

[redfox]

First post with OWB 2.7. :-D

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redfox

[amigaksi]

>...I agree with the previous poster(s) that Amiga web browsing in general is one of those "because I can!" things, and not for day to day use unless visiting lightweight sites or PDA-enabled sites.

Actually, I used to use a Gateway PCI 90Mhz system to browse websites (using 56K modem), but can no longer which basically shows that websites themselves have become worse.  People usually don't think about optimizing websites or even browsers thinking people will be using 1Ghz+ systems.  I am sure if CPU/modem speeds hadn't increased, people would still be optimizing their websites and browsers and they would be running much faster on old PCs and Amigas.  Some people still sit down and think of how to squeeze more features into a 4K Atari 2600 Cartridge whereas more and more PC gamers just try to get it working and recommend 128MB+ AGP graphics or something of that sort.  I saw one of the 'optimized' Aegis demos of airplane flying at 30fps that runs from a floppy disk and if you try to port one of the 30fps animation from a PC to Amiga, it probably won't run due to lack of CPU power or lack of storage.