MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released(github.com)
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MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released
https://github.com/mplsllc/macsurf/releases/tag/v1.86
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The 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.
Having 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 - Works with IE 5 or Netscape.
Writing a JS engine for OS 9 in 2026 is like, genuinely impressive
Seriously. 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 proxy running on another machine.
Wow. 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.
Yeah, 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.
Netsurf 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.
Not working, “Bad Parameter”
Awesome 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.
But it's a bit weird that old PPC Macs get modern browsers, but Intel Macs running 10.14 are stuck with Firefox 115esr.
You can use PaleMoon - https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml
Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)
Or by installing a BSD or linux.
Well, then they are not running Mac OS 10.14. ;)