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Software News : NetSurf 3.4 released!
Posted by Chris on 2016/2/22 8:00:00 (1917 reads) News by the same author
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NetSurf is a small, fast CSS capable web browser for AmigaOS and other platforms.

NetSurf 3.4 features many optimisations to improve performance over previous releases. It also contains many bug fixes, including improvements to page layout. This is also the first release to contain the Duktape JavaScript engine. While our JavaScript bindings have seen a lot of development for this release, JavaScript remains disabled by default as the support is incomplete. We recommend all users upgrade to NetSurf 3.4.

*** Download (AmigaOS 4) ***

Additionally I have released a beta version of an AmigaOS 3.5+ build based on the AmigaOS 4 native frontend. I need help to improve this. Download (AmigaOS 3.5/9)

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trixie
Published: 2016/2/22 9:33  Updated: 2016/2/22 9:33
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Joined: 05/01/2009
From: Czech Republic
Comments: 1743
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
Thanks for the new version, Chris!
benny
Published: 2016/2/22 13:07  Updated: 2016/2/22 13:07
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Joined: 12/08/2006
From: Netherlands
Comments: 135
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
Thanks for your effort !
Kamelito
Published: 2016/2/22 15:58  Updated: 2016/2/22 15:58
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Comments: 136
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
They spoke about it, sorry in french and AmigaOS is cited. Kamelito http://www.silicon.fr/le-navigateur-w ... au-javascript-139595.html
PEB
Published: 2016/2/22 21:11  Updated: 2016/2/22 21:11
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Joined: 11/29/2006
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 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
Working really well! It seems a lot better (faster) than I remember previous versions. The rendering seems to be really good too. Thanks Chris!
Chris
Published: 2016/2/22 21:51  Updated: 2016/2/22 21:51
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Joined: 11/17/2006
From: England
Comments: 3463
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@PEB

There has been a significant speed-up in page processing due to some changes in how CSS hints are handled. In addition, where I've been playing around with an OS3 version I've optimised bits of the frontend. I've seen noticeable improvement with these changes, and there have been a fair few smaller optimisations too.
Paul
Published: 2016/2/23 2:12  Updated: 2016/2/23 2:12
Quite a regular
Joined: 12/01/2006
From: Michigan, USA
Comments: 591
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
Hi Chris,
Layout at eBay seems better than previous to 3.4, ditto for the front page of foxnews.com. However a subpage at Foxnews had partial lines of text laid out on top of other text. Sorry I don't have the particulars, it happened this morning after I installed 3.4.

Generally a noticeable improvement though.

Paul
Chris
Published: 2016/2/23 9:57  Updated: 2016/2/23 9:57
Amigans Defender
Joined: 11/17/2006
From: England
Comments: 3463
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@Paul

If you see any layout problems, please raise them on the bugtracker http://bugs.netsurf-browser.org
trixie
Published: 2016/2/23 16:10  Updated: 2016/2/23 16:10
Amigans Defender
Joined: 05/01/2009
From: Czech Republic
Comments: 1743
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@chris

Quote:
There has been a significant speed-up in page processing

The speed-up is really noticeable on my Sam440ep-Flex @ 667 MHz.
Marko
Published: 2016/2/24 5:21  Updated: 2016/2/24 5:21
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Joined: 09/20/2008
From: Gothenburg, Sweden (via Finland)
Comments: 523
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@Chris

Thanks for another update!

Could you add AmiUpdate support please?
logicalheart
Published: 2016/2/24 5:44  Updated: 2016/2/24 5:44
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Joined: 07/14/2009
From: Utah, USA
Comments: 239
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
Thanks Chris. No more crashes here on start-up or exit. I enjoy using this efficient browser.
Chris
Published: 2016/2/24 10:19  Updated: 2016/2/24 10:19
Amigans Defender
Joined: 11/17/2006
From: England
Comments: 3463
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@Marko

Supported already, but I'd entirely forgotten!
It should update now (I might have put the wrong date in, so if it keeps bugging about incorrect dates please shout at me).
Marko
Published: 2016/2/25 21:38  Updated: 2016/2/25 21:38
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Joined: 09/20/2008
From: Gothenburg, Sweden (via Finland)
Comments: 523
 Re: NetSurf 3.4 released!
@Chris

AmiUpdate updated NetSurf just fine now, thanks
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