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MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
- mplsllc 2mo agoHaving issues with MacSurf? I have set up a web page for you to send me MacSurf logs to help with debugging issues and crashes. I also have a version that has much strong logging so we can really see what's going on. http://macsurf.org/debugs.html http://macsurf.org/debugs.html - Works with IE 5 or Netscape.
- mplsllc 2mo ago2.0 Released! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875353
- mplsllc 2mo agoThe single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.
- anthk 2mo agoThis needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.
- mplsllc 2mo agoThe most annoying bug I was able to fix that is also present up stream was this weird viewport, extra scroll bar, that would appear on some pages. I need to figure out how to get involved with the main repo if they'll have me.
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- system7rocks 2mo agoWow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.
- thisislife2 2mo agoYeah, I wish more people contributed to Netsurf and it gets the momentum it needs to compete with Blink, Gecko and Webkit. So many divided efforts in this area - there's Ladybird, Flow, Servo, Goanna. Even just improving Webkit and making it truly multi-platform (it isn't available for Windows, and the Linux version is apparently not as performant) would greatly even the field.
- mplsllc 2mo agoNetsurf seems pretty closed in terms of who they allow to contribute. However, I need to look more into it and not use the excuse that it's "too complicated" to see if they are interested in my bug fixes.
- MetalSnake 2mo agoAwesome stuff! I love retro computing especially with Macs. But it's a bit weird that old PPC Macs get modern browsers, but Intel Macs running 10.14 are stuck with Firefox 115esr.
- cgyvbunji 2mo agoHmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)
- 1over137 2mo agoOr by installing a BSD or linux.
- MetalSnake 2mo agoWell, then they are not running Mac OS 10.14. ;)
- thisislife2 2mo agoYou can use PaleMoon - https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml
- Wowfunhappy 2mo agoThey are not! https://github.com/aobaharuki2005/momiji-web-browser https://github.com/aobaharuki2005/momiji-web-browser
- crims0n 2mo agoThis is awesome and greatly appreciated, going to boot up my iMac G4 and give it a go.
- mplsllc 2mo agoAwesome! Please let me know how it goes (good or bad) I am always open to feedback.
- LetsGetTechnicl 2mo agoWriting a JS engine for OS 9 in 2026 is like, genuinely impressive
- steve-atx-7600 2mo agoSeriously. I am going to check this out. Otherwise, I can only use the last release of tenfourfox on my g4 but only through the https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice proxy running on another machine.
- pKropotkin 2mo agoNot working, “Bad Parameter”