VFP packaged versions of QupZilla and Otter Browser

You can use Clipper to paste URLs.

Thanks.

create a Note

Sometimes right-clicking in a page offers Copy to Note as an option, when it is absent I don’t know how to proceed. Cache: this was already set to ‘0’ in the previous version. Likewise Content Blocking.

Takes 8-12secs to load on a Pi4.

That’s impressive, but I wonder how miuch of the speed-up is down to Megabit Ethernet. My Pi3 is cabled to BTInfinity via a range extender and typically gets 17-19 MBits/sec.

Re further testing, I’m now away from my Pi (typing this on NetSurf/RPCEmu/Win7 laptop) for the next month so that’s it for the time being. But good to see continued development to Otter and QupZilla.

Megabit Ethernet.

I meant Gigabit Ethernet – brain fade..

I am trying out the latest Otter and QupZilla browsers. Launching them brings up the slash screens
on both dut not the browsers. Running Reporter brings up an error File removeda not found. I have installed them via Packman 0.9.5 beta.
Otter installed version is 0.9.11-dev20160717-2
QupZilla Installed version is 1.8.9-2

These browsers take a long time to start—they spend ages scanning the fonts. If you have a font manager, it can help to turn off as many fonts as possible. Otherwise, you’re looking at a startup time of around five minutes…

These browsers take a long time to start

The ELF loader is very slow loading executables and shared libraries. The time taken to load varies from 3 seconds up to 1 minute depending on disc media and speed of hardware

they spend ages scanning the fonts.

The fonts only need to be cached once. This is the bit that can take a long time the first time it is done. Copying !UnixFC and !UnixFont to ram disc and running fc-cache it should only take a few seconds.

*Show tells me that the path to the Otter directory is $.Apps.Network.!Otter-browser which is where Packman puts freshly installed ‘Network’ packages; but in the Otter window Menu → Help → About Otter says that the version is 0.9.97-dev 20170922-2 not the VFP version 0.0.97-dev20170922-3 promised by Packman. Is this right?

In $.Apps.Network the previous version there is now backed up and there are recent files in the new version including the binary ELF otter-browser file.