Actual version of Netsurf for FireBee ?

[neotenien]

Hello friends

Yesterday I did a research about NetSurf and Atari Firebee. Actually, on the netsurf website, it seems that the last Atari Version is only the 2.9 Version (2012) whereas for other systems (RISC OS, Amiga OS and even on Windows), it's the 3.10 (2020) version.

But another research gave a more recent version (on Coldfire system).
My questions:
1/ What is the latest version really available on Firebee ?
2/ For last version, does it work on FireTOS ? And on FreeMiNT ?
Does someone use it on FireTOS ?

The 3.10 version seems many more advanced concercing CSS3, JAvaScript and DOM stuff than 2.9.

I may say that I don't have FireBee Yet but I plan to biy one coz I wana code some software on Pure Pascal 1.1 which is a very good programming software at all levels.

[ADDEMTUM 1]
Thank you for the link about the last version. ALL my tests are done with HATARI on Linux OpenSuse. No NVDI, No FreeMiNT, No fVDI..
Test the last stable version 5384.

[ragnar76]

Newer versions are marked as test build. you can find them here: https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/

[ThorstenOtto]

There are snapshot builds available at https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/atari/

Edit: damn. 10 sec too late

[neotenien]

Ok

I already saw this link but didn't test it. So I setup the last version of Atari (5407) for Atari (m68k), unzip it and saw that in all txt doc, it concerns only the 2.9 version ? (not update I thnk). So what is the lates beta version of NetSurf on Atari ?

I just test it on Hatari, setting a 68040 at 32 MHz emulation (with no fvdi), 14 MO of RAM and I had this error (img)

HAtari_Netsurf01.png

.

Well maybe it's because I don't have fvdi, but I found nowhere any ZIP file about fVDI. I would wand to setup it for, by exemple, Highwire or Papyrus.

I also download the latest official version (3.10) of nersurf for my OpenSuse Linux OS, it work well, it's very fast, but it seems no DOM and JavaScript working (I test some of my JS and CSS stuff, no one work). But at the oipposite, I see the zip file is less than 10 MB (Atari Version) whereas Opera or Chreomium rpm is, at lest 150 or 200 MB.

[mfro]

I just test it on Hatari, setting a 68040 at 32 MHz emulation (with no fvdi), 14 MO of RAM and I had this error (img) HAtari_Netsurf01.png.

Not sure if NetSurf is supposed to work on a machine without network stack - I'd not be too astonished if it at least requires a localhost connection.

[neotenien]

I just test it on Hatari, setting a 68040 at 32 MHz emulation (with no fvdi), 14 MO of RAM and I had this error (img) HAtari_Netsurf01.png.

Not sure if NetSurf is supposed to work on a machine without network stack - I'd not be too astonished if it at least requires a localhost connection.

Does it need a cfg file ? I see on one old doc include (in 2012) this FAQ

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1.) Question:
    CAN NETSURF ALSO BE RUN WITHIN AN TOS ENVIRONMENT?

    Answer:
    Yes NS can run on classic TOS. More or less.
    It is intended to run within the FreeMint environment.
    However there is no support for networking
    right now. Networking support for FireTOS is maybe possible
    in the future.
    NS also has problems with Path conversions on all FileSystems
    running under TOS. Try setting full paths within the Choices file.


2.) Question:
    I DON'T HAVE AN 15 BIT GRAPHICS CARD, HOW TO RUN NETSURF ANYWAY?

    Answer:
    You need to trigger the config a bit.
	enable the following Choices settings:

    atari_font_driver:vdi
    atari_transparency:0
    suppress_images:1

    This will run netsurf as a bloat textmode browser :)

But there is NO CFG file with ns020.app.

[ldv-01]

Be aware that starting with #5385 all Netsurf test builds exit after start with a “failed to initialize “ message. Older builds seems ok.

[stormy]

Just read the error, says it can't initialise curl... curl is an internet download protocol. Are you running in an OS with internet configured like Mint? Why would you think fvdi is the issue... logic.

[neotenien]

Am on Hatari for Linux OpenSuse, 640x400 256 colors, with no FreeMINT (TOS 4.04 only)

I tried with adding 32 MO of TT RAM.

Tested the 5384 version (the last before 5385 so). It lauched correctly but there were 2 bombs (it seems it's a bus error) after a while, just when a window for browse appeared (netsurf menu appeared).

Do Netsurf use a cgf file ?

[Eero Tamminen]

Just read the error, says it can't initialise curl... curl is an internet download protocol. Are you running in an OS with internet configured like Mint? Why would you think fvdi is the issue... logic.

Curl is a program that implements number of internet (download) protocols. Libcurl is its library version, and it would seem that Netsurf is using that.

[stormy]

Am on Hatari for Linux OpenSuse, 640x400 256 colors, with no FreeMINT (TOS 4.04 only)

I tried with adding 32 MO of TT RAM.

Tested the 5384 version (the last before 5385 so). It lauched correctly but there were 2 bombs (it seems it's a bus error) after a while, just when a window for browse appeared (netsurf menu appeared).

Do Netsurf use a cgf file ?

How do you expect it to work in a non-network environment

[AnthonyJ]

How do you expect it to work in a non-network environment

Agree that it's probably to do with the lack of a network stack or appropriate network related OS facilities assumed by libcurl as present - so TOS 4.04 without MiNT probably isn't going to cut it.

To know precisely the cause of failure you could perhaps collect a little more info though: Browsing the Netsurf source code, I agree that the error is caused by libcurl reporting an error, however due to the fact that the message has been truncated we cannot see exactly why. From the source you can see that there are multiple calls to either curl_multi_setopt or curl_easy_setopt with a variety of different options. It would perhaps be instructive to know which of those options is failing.

Therefore, if you were to run at a higher screen resolution, or from a terminal that catches the output rather than it being printed straight to the screen, then you might get more information.

Ninja-edit: noting that this seems to be the latest revision of the code (since those messages were only recently added), the line number is probably trustable, so even though we cannot see the whole message, you can guess the error likely comes from:

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	SETOPT(CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS, CIPHER_SUITES);

Is TLS 1.3 supported / available? I'm guessing probably not.

[neotenien]

Be aware that starting with #5385 all Netsurf test builds exit after start with a “failed to initialize “ message. Older builds seems ok.

For othet answered

I use now a 5384 version and I don't have anymore this Message with libcurl, but the problem is now that, after the menu appears, it ty to open a window for a file and here there are 2 bombs (bus errors) appears.

Please other people consider that new problem. Old one is solve (last version are not stable with that)

[neotenien]

Am on Hatari for Linux OpenSuse, 640x400 256 colors, with no FreeMINT (TOS 4.04 only)

I tried with adding 32 MO of TT RAM.

Tested the 5384 version (the last before 5385 so). It lauched correctly but there were 2 bombs (it seems it's a bus error) after a while, just when a window for browse appeared (netsurf menu appeared).

Do Netsurf use a cgf file ?

How do you expect it to work in a non-network environment

Yes of course!!

Every webbrowwser existing (CAB, Highwire, Wensuite for Atari systems, Opera, Firefox, Epiphany, Chromium etc on Linux) work witout being connected!! A wennrowser is sensed display HTML (and CSS, JavaScript) page. No need any connection.

[Eero Tamminen]

I use now a 5384 version and I don't have anymore this Message with libcurl, but the problem is now that, after the menu appears, it ty to open a window for a file and here there are 2 bombs (bus errors) appears.

Using EmuTOS as TOS (for more information on crashes), and Hatari OS system call tracing (e.g. "--trace os_all"), you could see a bit more what is the problem.

[PeterS]

What is happening with Netsurf ?

The latest builds will not start so I tried contacting the making lists but they all seem to be down.

[Kroll]

I dont start a new thread, because on Falcon 060 with Radeon video card it is the same, the last build shows "Netsurf failed to initialise". The last which I have and working without problem is build nr #5366

[AnthonyJ]

As per my posr above, the issue seems to be because of a change to use TLS 1.3 which I am guessing is not supported on the Atari build of curl that is being used.

Someone probably needs to either disable the TLS 1.3 options in Atari builds, or I guess update the libcurl to support it.

[PeterS]

I dont start a new thread, because on Falcon 060 with Radeon video card it is the same, the last build shows "Netsurf failed to initialise". The last which I have and working without problem is build nr #5366

I sent the same issue to the mailing lists which are all broken.

Can anyone contact the maintainers ?

[ragnar76]

You can use the bug tracker here: https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/mantis ... w_page.php