Porteus

Just noticed that after about 4 years, the small browser Netsurf has been brought from 3.10 to 3.11 with some improvements. It has even made it out of Debian unstable into Debian testing. Has anyone compiled and checked out 3.11?

Normally I run a bigger browser, and the older Netsurf 3.10 is available in the browser-selection and update. You can see the latest here:

https://www.netsurf-browser.org/

I'm just too inexperienced (read LAZY) to compile it myself!

nanZor wrote: ↑

09 Aug 2024, 04:24

Netsurf has been brought from 3.10 to 3.11

thanks for the reminder , i noticed back when i last updated nemesis and should have updated the one on the server then..
anyways here's 3.11 > netsurf-3.11-x86_64-alldesktops.xzm
sha256sum: dfe7b54322247319537f863ff27bc77312e8b2be65de38605d556f607bbc081e
let me know how it goes and i'll do one for 32bit and upload to the server

Wow! Thank you. I like Netsurf mostly for OFF-line usage with simple html docs. Like the on-board Porteus docs for handy reminders. Looks good. It's my favorite go-to instead of using Lynx pointed inward with just
Online of course it's hit or miss. You *could* browse the Porteus forum to read, but interactively, it is frustrating. Of course if one has a data connection anyway, go for a major browser in today's environment. Using the Porteus forum interactively? Nah.

But I love Netsurf as an OFF-line reader for this simple docs, and on machines that have no net access anyway. Gonna' have to teach Ed how to write HTML3 with vi, and do an update to the url of file:(triple slash)usr/doc/Porteus-FAQ/index.html

Thanks for the 3.11 module - for what it is, and the environment it is good at, I think it's an improvement already on 3.10. So many forget that browsing doesn't always have to mean on the net. Use just the file:(triple slash) and up comes your hierarchical browser. Simple text too!