NetSurf 3.11 has been released!

on sam460 with OS4.1FE without Beta components, version downloaded from os4depot everything it's ok, nice speed also.

Hey all, I've uploaded the OS3 version to Aminet. It's working pretty well on my test OS 3.2.2.1 box - better than previous versions in fact.

@Chris

Mostly works great now with my beta install; getting a little bit of graphics corruption on the bottom of the forums.amiga.org page.

@Chris

Hi Chris,

I deleted the user/-name-/choices file and tried the test v3.12, build
03.01.2024 posted here, but Netsurf is still asking for guigfx.lib all
the time.

Specifically, when I started Netsurf choices-less I was presented a
screenmode requester, as soon as I selected a screen, the guigfx.lib
complainer was revealed underneath. As soon as I clear that, the Netsurf
splash window disappears and a new screen with Netsurf appears.

On restarts, I always see the guigfx.lib complainer. I tried setting
NetSurf to run on my 32bit Workbench (preferred), but still everytime
it also complains about guigfx.lib when starting on the WB.

I tried that Netsurf install on my X5K on some simple webpages with little
or no javascript and it seemed to work fine - very quickly even. I tried
a bunch of Amiga sites that loaded great and most of the time Slashdot did
too.

But everytime I entered Wikipedia's URL (http or https) or any heavier
JS sites, I just get "Fetching. Processing." and Netsurf is hung - totally
unresponsive. Close gadget doesn't work. Ctrl-C in the shell doesn't
work. Often it locked up my X5K.

I captured a number of crash and serial logs of the crashes in case you
want them. Please let me know.

While I did have Netsurf running I noticed a few other things...

- "snapshot window" doesn't actually snapshot - the window location is
not saved in "choices" until the menu "Save Settings" also selected.
Shouldn't the "Snapshot" menu do that job alone to fullfil its label?

- quitting always shows this in the console:

***Command 'NetSurf' returned with unfreed signals 01000000!

Meanwhile, the v3.11 build has been running pretty nicely on my vanilla
OS 4.1 FE update 2 SAM460. No further operational comments at the
moment.

Thanks & Congrats on a nice job!

PJS

@pjs

Weird, I'll look into it. Can you email me the logs in the meantime?

Actually, can you run it from the command line
NetSurf -v *>ram:ns.log and send me ns.log?

Hi,

On my X5000/RX560, scrolling is very rough and refreshing slow - the page visibly flickers (the top when scrolling up and the bottom when scrolling down) and often completely disappears for a second.

I have tried on both Workbench and Netsurf on its own screen, also tried switching off Simple Refresh, but the result is the same.

@daveyw

Yeah, it's always been like that, I don't think I can improve it. The area which has become visible is blank, and then it redraws it. I think the reason the delay is so noticeable is because it *redraws* not *refreshes*. So it takes a little longer rather than the entire page being drawn initially and then just blitted onto the screen. When the dynamic layout engine is done caching and redrawing the entire page in the background might make everything sluggish anyway.

@Chris

Hi Chris!

I just emailed you a capture from the shell as requested as well
an old Snoopy log and several serial logs on crashes.

Please let me know if you need anything else!

Thanks,

PJS

@Chris

On OS3 the HTTPS sites are not accessed, some earlier versions accessed, but the graphics were distorted!

On systems with the AfA OS extension (AmiKit, my Afa One), when you exit NetSurf the operating system becomes very slow

@AMIGASYSTEM

Did you use the version from my link above? That works fine on HTTPS as long as you have AmiSSL 5.13 (that exact version) installed.

I think there's a bug on exit which causes crashing and strangeness which I've never been able to track down.

@Chris
Thanks for replying, if you are referring to the OS3 version found on Aminet, HTTPS works, but the colours are corrupted.

If you go to www.amigapage.it for example, the graphics are distorted, but with the OS4 version the graphics are correct.

@AMIGASYSTEM

Yeah, the graphics have never worked properly, that and some text issues stop me removing the beta tag.

Hi All,

Just downloaded Netsurf 3.11 from its website onto my A122+.

It successfully installed.

Clicked on the Netsurf icon.

It started to pull down fonts automatically.

Then it wants a guigfx.library file to view images in this mode.

My screen mode is 1600x900 ARGB32.

Then upon displaying the default page.

I click on any of the links provided, BBC, Rool, Ars, etc.

It comes back with "error fetching page"?

I am connected to the internet fine.

Odyssey works and iBrowsse work fine.

Latest AmiSSL is installed, its version 5.16.

Any reason why this happened and how can I fix it?

Thank you and I appreciate any feedback and assistance on this.

@Boabster

I have not been able to get NetSurf 3.11 or later development builds to work on my A1222. DNS lookups always fail preventing connection to external websites.

-- eliyahu

Me neither on my X5000. It is not a system problem. It seems there is an issue with these builds.

@Boabster

I believe last time I saw this problem, it was the version of AmiSSL. Make sure it has actually updated. You may need an older version installed first, although I'm not sure that's necessary now.

I also know there's an issue with current CI builds crashing on startup, this is to do with a change in the search code, and I've not been able to track down exactly what's causing it yet.

@Chris

I have exactly the same problem as others have already described.

@Boabster

The latest version that works on my A1222 is version 3.6...I'm not sure what newer versions do differently, but version 3.6 works without problems.

You can get NetSurf 3.6 from here:

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/downloads/amiga/

The website also works perfectly with Odyssey and you can download it directly.

@Maijestro, @AmigansDefender, @All.

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, I can confirm installing Netsurf 3.6 now allow me to connect to other sites.

Occaisionally, I get a requester pop up to verify the site SSL security is fine, and to either choose accept or decline.

I do have latest AmiSSL installed, I think its 5.16 I have.

So far, it appears to be working, just don't change the fonts, as it breaks the whole thing.

Had to reinstall Netsurf 3.6 again to get it back to a working state.

latest 3.12 beta version 6752 with sam460 full beta update:

Requester:

NetSurf requires guigfx.library.....

Best Regards

A1222 - might be something to do with the compilation switches used. I think it's not 100% compatible with other PPCs?

guigfx - this might relate to using a beta of OS4?

I can't test either of these things unfortunately. However the source is available if you want to submit a patch.