MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released • Hacker News Board

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#11

Post by LetsGetTechnicl » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

Writing a JS engine for OS 9 in 2026 is like, genuinely impressive

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#12

Post by pKropotkin » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:21 PM UTC

Not working, “Bad Parameter”

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#13

Post by cgyvbunji » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

MetalSnake wrote: post #4

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.

Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#14

Post by Wowfunhappy » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

MetalSnake wrote: post #4

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.

They are not!

https://github.com/aobaharuki2005/momiji-web-browser

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#15

Post by 1over137 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

cgyvbunji wrote: post #13

MetalSnake wrote: post #4

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.

Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)

Or by installing a BSD or linux.

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#16

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 1:53 AM UTC

mplsllc wrote: post #8

anthk wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.

The 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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Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#17

Post by steve-atx-7600 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 2:36 AM UTC

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #11

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.

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#18

Post by mplsllc » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 4:23 AM UTC

pKropotkin wrote: post #12

Not working, “Bad Parameter”

I'm trying to figure this out now, I can't replicate it myself. Actual hardware of emulation? Spinning disk drive of SSD?

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#19

Post by MetalSnake » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:08 AM UTC

cgyvbunji wrote: post #13

MetalSnake wrote: post #4

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.

Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)

Well, then they are not running Mac OS 10.14. ;)

Re: MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

#20

Post by thisislife2 » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 9:43 AM UTC

MetalSnake wrote: post #4

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.

You can use PaleMoon - https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml