Netsurf

[emcclariion]

will test tonight mate.

test machine will be a TT.

[PeterS]

Ok, Atari CI builds are working again, but noone was able to test them: https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/

Could someone familiar with NetSurf test it and report there or on #netsurf on Freenode?

Thanks!

Fantastic, I wasn't expecting such a quick fix. I will test tonight on a Milan.

[emcclariion]

works fine on a TT

still slower than hell but works fine

[PeterS]

Working here on the Milan. Will let the netsurf users list know.

Many thanks.

[Bengy]

I did test this yesterday on the FireBee - it was freezing upon load, but will make sure it wasn't anything on my end today.

Are there specific features/areas to test?

[ThorstenOtto]

Works in aranym. Seems to be slightly slower than previous versions, and i get some SSL verification errors (but maybe that is the usual problem of an outdated certficate database).

[m0n0]

There was an bug in the Makefile, so that it did not locate the strip executable:

http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf. ... 7a7dff8384

Many thanks to Vincent Sanders and Michael Drake for fixing it!

[Bengy]

There was an bug in the Makefile, so that it did not locate the strip executable:

http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf. ... 7a7dff8384

Many thanks to Vincent Sanders and Michael Drake for fixing it!

Great will test this out tomorrow! Nice work everyone

[sety]

Looking great on CT60 Falcon without SuperVidel. (TC done with bus mod and non-fussy monitor)

[sety]

Actually, it's better than great. It's fantastic!

Netsurf.JPG

I am seriously impressed.

[PeterS]

I've been using it for several years. It does render pages well but can be very slow with some pages taking 5-10 minutes to download on a Milan 060 at 50MHz.

I don't think it is a simple cpu horse-power issue, I get the impression that other 060 platforms do better but it would be great if someone could do a comparison.

[mikro]

There's no way that with a decent (several hundreds KB/s) speed a webpage is downloading several minutes. I'm pretty confident that what are you seeing *is* a horse-power issue because of all that javascript, css etc nonsense. Try to fire up Chrome on a 300-400 MHz CPU.

[wongck]

I don't think it is a simple cpu horse-power issue, I get the impression that other 060 platforms do better but it would be great if someone could do a comparison.

A single thread on my 6 year old iCore is like several times faster than the 060 at 50Mhz.
I think most web pages developer assumes you have at least 2 of such threads to use if not more.

[ThorstenOtto]

Q: We've got now those superfast, hypermodern, multithreaded cores. How can we throttle them down again, so that the user is forced to buy new PCs in the future?

A: Lets use more of that funny CSS things. And while we are at it, use high-resolution images of several MBs as background, ADs etc.

[wongck]

A: Lets use more of that funny CSS things. And while we are at it, use high-resolution images of several MBs as background, ADs etc.

May seems like a joke, but it is true.... it is a conspiracy.

Chrome is already choking with all those hi-rez graphics that they have to implement lazy loading in the current version.

[trecool]

A usable non-TC version would be nice to have.

[m0n0]

A usable non-TC version would be nice to have.

Which/how many machines are out there that do not support TC, but offer near enough performance/resources for an application like netsurf?

Also, running under palette based systems requires pixel-value to palette-index conversion, which requires even more RAM and CPU time.

You can disable images & background images and set the font plotter to the VDI or NetSurf internal one in the configuration file, It should work under 2-256 colors then. Some details are described in the faq.txt, bundled with the netsurf ci build.

But both font plotters seem to be buggy The VDI plotter fails on some strings at the UTF82VDI routine, and the internal one seems to go wild during rendering phase.

I tested the latest CI build under aranym, it seems to reflow the page layout when resizing the window, nice feature.

[trecool]

Well..not many I was hoping there would be some use on CT60 Falcon, but haven't thought that convertion would be needed.
Got it! Thanks for the educational post!

[m0n0]

There were some changes to NetSurf, the http login dialog is now embedded into the Browser-Window. Is someone willing to test this with the latest CI build:

https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/?C=M;O=D

I tested the build, but I do not have networking setup in my aranym installation, so I can not access a webserver (with authentication enabled) within aranym.

Also, there was a ask for help for SSL errors on the mailing list:

https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/piper ... 14435.html

It would be fine if someone is willing to add a translation or test the new feature.

[emcclariion]

I will test it tonight on my TT, my Falcon just will not even start the last version

[joska]

Which/how many machines are out there that do not support TC, but offer near enough performance/resources for an application like netsurf?

Any CT60-equipped Falcon without graphics card. That's most of them I think. I don't know how many CT60's has been sold over the years, but I would assume this to be the most common "high power" Atari out there.

[vido]

There were some changes to NetSurf, the http login dialog is now embedded into the Browser-Window. Is someone willing to test this with the latest CI build:

https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/?C=M;O=D

I tested the build, but I do not have networking setup in my aranym installation, so I can not access a webserver (with authentication enabled) within aranym.

Also, there was a ask for help for SSL errors on the mailing list:

https://listmaster.pepperfish.net/piper ... 14435.html

It would be fine if someone is willing to add a translation or test the new feature.

I would like to test a web authentication but is there any web page on the net with http login enabled?

I tried the latest version of the NetSurf with my FireBee. It works but when I try to browe the acp development forun there apears dialog with the text "Unknown" and nothing else. It doesnt crash but I cant view the page.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

I am trying to get netsurf to perform a little better on the beepi.

For example, loading to the front page of atari-forum takes almost 2 minutes. Login takes 1:30. Thread loading is even worse depending on the content.

It's surprising since atari-forum doesn't even use SSL.

So I'm looking at the settings dialog. Is there anything there I can tweak to get it to perform faster?

netsurf_a.png

netsurf_b.png

I tried increasing the disk cache as I thought might offload some network loading, but it didn't seem to help. Also turned off Transparency and Animations.

I was curious about the option "Limit speed to ___ seconds between frames". Has anyone adjusted that value for page loading under MINT?

[vido]

I am posting this with the NetSurf from my FireBee.
Loading the first page takes here about 20 seconds. I am using build 4833.
I think disc cache doesnt work. I believe it will work faster if you disable it.
As I see you have almost the same settings as I do. I tought the speed on the BeePi should be about the same as on the FireBee or even faster.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Hmm, looks like beepi is using an older build from 2016. At least that's what the "about" dialog reports.