Odyssey 1.23 progress: r5 RC2

@terminills

Has it? Then why do people keep moaning about no updates? Surely somebody can build an OS4 version from that source?

@Crhis
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Yep it has, i even year (or more?) ago was noticed about, and have few mails with Deadwood about, where we agree that i can just send them os4 patches, they (fab and deadwood) will revisied it and apply if all ok.

But then, new problem arise about which everyone told in last year : latest webkits changes broken JS for big endian. As you can see, there was 1.25 release for AROS only, and that is because Fab didn't deal at moment with that problems. Deadwood lately create bounty for, but as there wasn't too much fuzz about and intrest from users and developers, it didnt come up to anything good, so we only can wait when Fab will deal with ?:)

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Of course. Its just need time, interest and motivation. There through will need to make the same as we do before: aos4 specific changes there and there, not a lot now, as our mui is good enough now, but still. As well as there is problems to build all the 3d party deps normally, some are pretty specific. As well as if any didn't have expirience with cross-compilation and all that build processes that will be pain too. But all possible of course. Probably for you as aos4 Netsurf author it will be twice easy :)

@kas1e Quote:
I can't think it was advertised or described very well. Was there ever any news item(s) here or AW.net?

If it was described as bounty for solving the main issue that is blocking the release of updated Odyssey for OS4 (and MOS), then I think would get more attention.

@ChrisH

http://www.amigans.net/modules/xforum ... id=100340#forumpost100340

@ChrisH
You are probably right, since most people don't even know that they broke the big endian support in the latest Webkit.

@kas1e


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Yes true , Tobias Netzel on Leopard Webkit found really difficult to patch the Js engine on webkit for work on Pmacs ... Many scripts make the browser hang and crash.

In any way the leopard webkit perform really good in the majority of the last websites ... if we dont count facebook chat where webkit crash.

Im spoking about r 600.8.2 i dont know what webkit is used by Odyssey 537 (?)

Changing browser

I can for sure say one thing the Teen4Fox is working really good on my PowerMAc and is based on Geko... never crash, no problems with video play on youtube or facebook ...an thinking why no one had been ask to Cameron Kaiser to enter in the dev group for make a porting on amigaos (Cameron know really well Amiga ) ?

@terminills
I'm aware of that. It's not a NEWS item, but a forum thread. Quite a different thing, and easily not seen.

@kas1e

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Ok, but while we wait maybe you could update the current version 1.23 ?
Just today deadwood claimed to have fixed some important memory leak issues and he also optimized a bit the memory usage !

Probably all that changes can be reused also in our old version with little or zero changes, see:

http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/vi ... t_id=97968#forumpost97968

Also still of course many old minor issues that you could fix ...

@samo
I found sources of 1.23 on old hdd, and apply patches which deadwood send me. You and others may try it (only binary, replace one from 1.23 install): https://www.sendspace.com/file/7kfpi7

Through i do not know what differences should be. At least deadwood told on aros-exec, that after visiting and leaving gmail memory wasn't freed, so probably gmail can be good test case.

Tell me if anything changes in good way, so i can reupload 1.23 archive with new binary.

@kas1e

Ok downloading now, will report my impression soon
Aniway no chance to have fixes for other very ancient issues we reported ?

@samo
Probably nope if it some hardcore crashes to which need debugging (and time), but if anything visual/cosmetic/easy, then can do that today.

@kas1e

No time today to re-check carefully all the issues we reported, will verify with calm.
However two minor issues come in my mind:

1- OWB sometimes crash (randomly) if in iconify state
http://bugs.os4depot.net/?function=viewissue&issueid=880

It's not always reproducible, maybe it happen only if you iconify OWB when a website with a sort of auto-reload is displayed.
Not sure at 100%, but this one is very annoying .. reproduce it is quite easy, open some site, the iconify OWB, then wait until crash happen ...

2- If, for any reason MUI4 cannot be found, then OWB crash at startup
http://bugs.os4depot.net/?function=viewissue&issueid=896

3- Update archive with the latest codeset.library 6.19
http://os4depot.net/index.php?functio ... library/misc/codesets.lha

4- Problem with mouse wheel on YouTube page
For example go to: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu0u-lS19NgIvgItMF_KzSA

Now if you click on the "video" link, then all videos will be disposed and displayed in a single scrollable page, however whatever you scoll it (using the mouse wheel) the page will always and automatically goes up again and again !
Don't know if it's a WeBkit issue or just an OWB one, but for sure it's crazy annoying behaviour

Probably there are more, just no time time today for verify, eventually will check today later (or tomorrow )

@samo
Enough will be to check if new binary working :)

@kas1e
Many many thanks to rework on Odyssey :)

I can't test your new binary for now but I take the opportunity to ask :

Is it possible to don't start video automatically to avoid these frequent "[OWB Mediaplayer]" crashs ?

(I don't remember exactly the crash name)

thx

@kas1e

Hehe well i'm browsing right now with it and it looks fine, it seems even a bit faster but probably it's only a placebe effect ... let me some time to be sure

@zzd10h

Probably that one:

http://bugs.os4depot.net/?function=viewcomments&issueid=893

Or one similar ...

Don't start them automatically isn't a good solution imho, but a tooltype to disable video might be

I want test it too

@tlosm
Anybody knows the guy (Cameron Kaiser) and can him contact?
Maybe Teen4Fox is better solution for NG systems?

@tommysammy

Download link in Post #613

@ddni
thanks