OWB free for all!

I feel that the OWB browser has come to an end. I will not add more features and only minimal fixes. Therefore I now give it away to all that would like to try it.
The version is a snapshot from January 2024.

Some thoughts :
It has been a long journey for me. I have been asking myself, why bother with a browser engine that is a decade old? I think that the answer is that I somewhat hoped that it would do something good for the RISC OS community. When I started it was a direct port of the SDL version OWB. This isn’t the case now. OWB for RISC OS is very much WebKit 1 for RISC OS.

Some usage notes:

Bookmarks: I use a text file in StrongED with links that I can double click on. I just drag urls from url field to the text files to add more bookmarks.

Downloads: It kind of works if you have a directory called “owb” in scrap dir. OWB will show that directory when download is done. Be sure not to close the window that started the download before you can see the file. No promises from me about if this works.. should do but I have seen some downloads just end up void.

Uploads : NO

HTML Gadgets : NO

Copy/paste: You can paste into browser but not the other way.

The feel when scrolling webpages is the same as with NetSurf. Also page loading is about the same speed, except for sites with a lot of big images. OWB is very slow on decoing images.. I haven’t manage to firgure out why.

I am happy to answer questions, but please understand you are on your own when using OWB. I cannot take any responsibility if your computer crashes and so on.

Enough talking! Here is the link:

OWB

I realized that I have some “fixes” archives for the January build :)
So
OWBfix

Happy browsing!

Just one note. The main archive has a !System. Try without it first. If you ar using latest NetSurf you probably have the components needed. If the browser complains ,, merge the !System.

Thanks for all your work on this, Michael, and making it available.

Thanks for all your work on this, Michael, and making it available.

Thank you for your kind comment.

Thanks for all your work on this, Michael, and making it available.

I second this. Thanks for all your hard work on it.