NetSurf 3.7 released!

[chris]

NetSurf is a small, fast, CSS-capable web browser for multiple platforms including AmigaOS.

NetSurf 3.7 features performance improvements, improved page layout, and many fixes. Also new is a treeview search feature, which allows Hotlist (Bookmarks), History and Cookies to be searched. We recommend all users upgrade to NetSurf 3.7.

Official downloads (AmigaOS 4 version)
AmigaOS3 beta version

[utri007]

Anything new in OS3.5/9 version? Requirements doesn't mention guigfx and render libraries anymore?

To prevent hasle, those should be mentioned if required. Another thing, you could include them to Netsurf archive. Guigfx requires that Netsurf readme mentions it and render library is prety much free to include.

guigfx

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Render library

license

  render.library is released under the terms of a BSD-style
  license. see COPYING for details. don't take it too serious,
  there is no need to change texts in existing software.

[Templario]

Good news for 68k users a new update of this browser.

[chris]

Anything new in OS3.5/9 version? Requirements doesn't mention guigfx and render libraries anymore?

It should mention them, didn't really look at the readme beyond correcting the version number.

New stuff is the same as other versions, I've not done anything special with the OS3 frontend.

[Iggy]

Good news for 68k users a new update of this browser.

Nice, beats waiting for 'Eyebrows'. :hammer:

[utri007]

Works as always

Some speed has been lost. It takes about 50% more time to render amiga.org was 23 seconds, is now about 32-36 seconds. Amigaworld.net rendering time is about a same. It also seems to do something before and after page is loaded? About 5-10 seconds nothing happen in Netsurf information bar, no loading fetching etc. it just seems to wait something and same when page is loaded/displayed. With this effect it feels much slower than it used to be.

I also get one guru when I changet from amiga.org to amigaworld, but I couldn't reproduce it. Previously Netsurf has been very stable here.

Tested with both machines and several times.

[chris]

Some speed has been lost. It takes about 50% more time to render amiga.org was 23 seconds, is now about 32-36 seconds. Amigaworld.net rendering time is about a same. It also seems to do something before and after page is loaded? About 5-10 seconds nothing happen in Netsurf information bar, no loading fetching etc. it just seems to wait something and same when page is loaded/displayed. With this effect it feels much slower than it used to be.

I don't know why that would be.  I can't think of anything that has changed which would cause that.  The log file might provide a clue.

[utri007]

I don't know why that would be.  I can't think of anything that has changed which would cause that.  The log file might provide a clue.

This message is repeated some 100x times and takes 72 second to move on?
(180.004997) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:58 ami_font_bm_open: (using current font)
This one only few times
(122.027104) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:102 ami_font_bm_open: font: helvetica.font/12

Starts (121.790181)
Ends (193.876583)

Same message starts again (201.677977) and ends (227.279296) users over 100 seconds to open same font when logging? That message is about 50% of all messages.

Fix fonts is of course runned when installed

[chris]

This message is repeated some 100x times and takes 72 second to move on?
(180.004997) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:58 ami_font_bm_open: (using current font)
This one only few times
(122.027104) frontends/amiga/font_diskfont.c:102 ami_font_bm_open: font: helvetica.font/12

Starts (121.790181)
Ends (193.876583)

Same message starts again (201.677977) and ends (227.279296) users over 100 seconds to open same font when logging?

It's doing layout, that "opening same font" is just a message, when that appears that function isn't actually doing anything.

It could well be the logging slowing it down, I don't know how it works so it could be doing processing that it wasn't before.

[utri007]

How about this :

(31.495984) frontends/amiga/gui.c:3733 amiga_window_invalidate_area: Ignoring duplicate or subset of queued box redraw

It ends (33.325507) starts again (88.770177) and ends (92.919132)

(43.001307) content/llcache.c:1499 llcache_process_metadata: metadata error on line 3 error code 18

Same error about 30 times

[Bennymee]

NetSurf is a small, fast, CSS-capable web browser for multiple platforms including AmigaOS.

NetSurf 3.7 features performance improvements, improved page layout, and many fixes. Also new is a treeview search feature, which allows Hotlist (Bookmarks), History and Cookies to be searched. We recommend all users upgrade to NetSurf 3.7.

Official downloads (AmigaOS 4 version)
AmigaOS3 beta version

Thank you for the new version!

A few sites are more compatible then 3.6.
But two sites don't come past the 'accept cookies button' (Javascript)

[chris]

How about this :

(31.495984) frontends/amiga/gui.c:3733 amiga_window_invalidate_area: Ignoring duplicate or subset of queued box redraw

It ends (33.325507) starts again (88.770177) and ends (92.919132)

That's to do with the redraw, it's doing layouting between those times, the actual redraw happens afterwards. The message means the area the core wants to redraw is already going to be redrawn, so it is being ignored to avoid unnecessary processing/flickering (when it gets to the point of actually redrawing).

(43.001307) content/llcache.c:1499 llcache_process_metadata: metadata error on line 3 error code 18

Same error about 30 times

Something to do with the disk cache, delete the cache directory and it should clear this.

[chris]

Thank you for the new version!

A few sites are more compatible then 3.6.
But two sites don't come past the 'accept cookies button' (Javascript)

Javascript buttons still don't work. Something to do with event code bindings, don't have a clue what is missing here because most of the event code stuff seems to be in place!

Note that the lack of a dynamic layout engine means the message probably wouldn't disappear even if the buttons worked. The layout engine is the main reason for missing Javascript functionality.

[madgrizzle]

I have lha version 2.12 and it gives me an error when I try to decompress the file "*** Error on file 'AutoInstall' : Unknown compression (need newer LHA version)".   I see a version 2.15, but the changelog didn't say anything about adding a new compression type. What version of LHA is needed to decompress the archive?

[utri007]

I have lha version 2.12 and it gives me an error when I try to decompress the file "*** Error on file 'AutoInstall' : Unknown compression (need newer LHA version)".   I see a version 2.15, but the changelog didn't say anything about adding a new compression type. What version of LHA is needed to decompress the archive?

OS3.5/9 unarchiver should do the job. No need to use lha command.