Odyssey 3.0 alpha - bug reports coming slowly...

@NinjaCyborg

Thanks. Haven't dug into it very much yet. Haven't had time.
But if the core is actually much newer it's very interesting!

What happened to all the problems with the big-endian JS JIT code being removed and all that? There was a lot of struggles with this a few years back and it seemed to dead-end at some point..?

Is it running purely interpreted now, or has this been adressed somehow?

Edit: Actually, it doesn't say anything about webkit, only that it uses the latest clib4 runtime library and built by GCC 11. Which is why I got the impression that only the build environment was updated, not the actual webkit core.

@Rolar

The main issue i have i didn't post on Github is because I think it's a "me" issue.

I used the older Odyssey in conjunction with YAM to read HTML emails.
I can't seem to get YAM to do the same with this latest version.

I hit display and the the HTML link and nothing happens, no error but no page in Odyssey either.
I probably just need to spend some time working out how it works in the first instance to understand why it's not working with the newer version.


Cheers

@TiredOfLife

If you're using and ARexx script with YAM -> Odyssey3 ARexx-Port has different name.

OWB.number instead of ODDYSEY.number

@jabirulo

That's the problem, I can't remember how I got this to work.
It's been working for years.
I just know I click on the option Display in the menu bar of the open email.
A list of parts to the email is displayed.
I click on the HTML link then and click on the display button that is part of that list.

Odyssey opens with the email displayed.

Cheers.

@TiredOfLife


I can confirm the same happens here.

I could get round it by ragging the html file yam creates in T: onto the odyssey window. The for some reason it loads the file into a new background tab not the one you dragged the file onto.

My thought was is that it is still alpha and soon we may get a newer version to try.

Does anyone else find that the new version want to load all the fonts every time you run it?

@BillE

The font thing appears to happen very quickly but yeah I do get that as well.

Cheers

@BillE

I've tried playing around with this but no joy.
It does look like the Display button uses the URL prefs.

The options appear to be drop in the link into Odyssey 3.0 as you suggest or choosing a different browser when prompted in YAM.

Cheers

Google doesn't work, but it works on the old Odyssey displaying a very simple page.

Tried to spoof and eventually it loaded google but crashed while displaying a reCaptcha. It eventually ate all memory and the machine froze so no crashlog. First some subtask crashed, then main Odyssey ate the memory.

Does google.com work for you guys? If so, how do you make it work?

@Deniil

Just selected one of the spoof options prior to opening a Google page

Cheers

I've discovered over the past few months that disabling sjlj exceptions in gcc, while it made C++ run much faster, caused a problem. The exceptions that should now use dwarf2 don't work.
So I had to fix my gcc and clib4 so that the exceptions work again.
The linker needs fixing, and we've opened a ticket on AmigaLabs.
Now, for example, Odyssey no longer exits when you click Cancel in the preferences. Before, the abort() function was simply called on an exception.
Now the Google page works, but if you try searching and click "I'm not a robot," you get a DSI.
It's not software I can work with quickly, unfortunately, and I'm practically alone... so please be patient.

Thanks Andrea for your work

@afxgroup

Thanks! It's awesome that you're doing it!

For many years long ago it was talk about the "killer app" that would mae the masses turn to (or from) Amiga. Well, the true killer app of killer apps turned out to be the browser

Hi Everyone,

Testing Odyssey 3.0. These are in no particular order. I am using an completely updated AmigaOne 500 with Radeon Rx 550. Okay, first the network activity in the bottom left is off. I only have 8 open connections and it is showing 16 and they are not lighting up as it loads data. Second,some sites bring the entire computer down, eBay is one of them. The loading speed for most sites does not improve when JavaScript is disabled. Third, it is not caching the fonts upon loading. Fourth, when changing the prefs and saving the program you get the Grim Reaper and when you ignore DSI, it closes the program. Google Search appears to work. That is not the case on a lot of our browsers.

I appreciate all the work everyone is doing for this. We need an updated browser. I am wondering if AI can help us with this?

Looking forward to the next update.

Yogi