GFOpenBrowser 0.9.0 RC1

GFOpenBrowser 0.9.0 RC1

The first release candidate of GFOpenBrowser, the WebKit web browser for AmigaOS 3.2 (68040 or 68060 with its FPU).

Install: unpack the archive and double-click Install-GFOpenBrowser (the Amiga Installer; Novice, Intermediate and Expert levels). Reboot afterwards, then double-click GFOpenBrowser. Files the Installer replaces are kept as .before-20261104.

New since 0.8.4 test:

• Animated GIFs play, with their own delays and loop counts (gfopengif.datatype 47.1, included and installed).
• Cairo is out of the engine. WebBrowserEngine is 43,332,880 bytes.
• PNG output through gfopenpng.datatype 47.5 (included and installed), now that cairo is gone.
• GlowIcons for the drawer, the browser, the readme and the Installer.

Checked on a fresh copy of an AmigaOS 3.2 system: BBC News, Wikipedia, example.com (Arabic, CJK, Cyrillic) and an animated GIF all display correctly.

Built from main 888bda4 (engine from 65acb03). Parts: gfopenfont 63ead74, gfopenlayout da4a066, gfopendatatypes fb8e382 (gif, png, stream), gfopengpu 0.25.

Designed, tested and delivered by The AmigaChrome Team.

GFOpenBrowser Lite 0.4.3

GFOpenBrowser Lite 0.4.3: opens GFOpenTLS by its GF name, gfopentls.library (PR #169; docs/RELEASE_0.4.3.md). sha256 dacfcb8324bfb2eb40cffde651f94b4d0c1663484f90352efe5e037d35dc9a8c. Team 5

GFOpenBrowser Lite 0.4.2 (draft: rebuilt on open5)

Short: Small web browser for AmigaOS 3.2 (no WebKit)
Author: AmiCradle Team
Uploader: UPLOADER-PLACEHOLDER
Type: comm/www
Version: 0.4.2
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 3.2
Distribution: Aminet

GFOpenBrowser Lite is a small web browser for AmigaOS 3.2: a GadTools window
that opens http:// and https:// pages and lays them out, in about 100 KB.

What it shows:

• headings, paragraphs, lists, quotes, preformatted text, rules
• links: click one to follow it, or pick it from Links...
• pictures, through the system's datatypes (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and
  more, whichever datatypes are installed), scaled to their box
• CSS: the page's <style>, style= and up to eight linked stylesheets;
  element, class and ID selectors; colours, sizes, margins, padding,
  alignment, display: none
• Back, Reload, an address field, and ARexx: OPENURL on the
  port AMICRADLE.BROWSER (GFOpenMail opens its links that way)

What it doesn't do: JavaScript, forms, frames, table grids, web fonts. For
those there is GFOpenBrowser on WebKit (much larger).

Requirements:

• AmigaOS 3.2 or newer
• a 68040 with FPU (hard float; not an LC or EC040)
• a TCP/IP stack (bsdsocket.library)
• for https://: GFOpenTLS (LIBS:gfopentls.library and gfopencrypto.library) and
  its CA list, S:GFOpenTLS/ca-bundle.pem (GFOpenUp's GFOpenTLS part)

Its page engine, weblayout, is built on GFOpenLayout and kept behind one
header so that it can become a shared weblayout.library.

Licence: MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 AmiCradle Team. If you base work on
this, please say what it is based on.

Source: https://github.com/DalsinAI/gfopenbrowser

OpenBrowser test version, 23 October 2026

A test version of OpenBrowser for AmigaOS 3.2 (68040 with FPU). Things will still go wrong; please report them.

Install: unpack OpenBrowser-test-20261023b.lha and double-click Install-OpenBrowser. It runs in the Installer (SYS:System/Installer), as in the 0.8.0 test version:

• It checks for OS 3.2 and a 68040 or 68060 with FPU.
• It asks where the drawer goes (Work: by default). The drawer now needs about 87 MB, not 195 MB.
• It makes sure of opentls.library 1.2+, opencrypto.library 2.1+, json.library and the CA bundle. An older library is kept as *.before-20261023b.
• It copies the Unicode data to LOCALE:Unicode when there is room.
• If an older engine is installed in LIBS:WebBrowser, it is kept as WebBrowserEngine.before-20261023b, and webbrowser.library then uses the engine in the drawer.
• Nothing is deleted.

From a Shell, Execute Install in the drawer does the same without questions. It does not yet check for free space before it copies the Unicode data to LOCALE:Unicode, so on a nearly full System: please use the Installer.

What changed since the 0.8.0 test version:

• One engine. The package ships only WebBrowserEngine (75,811,000 bytes) and one copy of the fonts, settings and Unicode data. The archive is 47.3 MB (0.8.1 test: 80.0 MB) and the installed drawer about 87 MB (0.8.1 test: 173 MB).
• json.library is copied to LIBS: by both the Installer and Execute Install. The engine needs it.
• The launcher opens LIBS:webbrowser.library, or the copy in its own drawer before it is installed.
• Smaller and faster engine than 0.8.0: plain inlining outside the hot code (patch 0056), json.library for JSON (patch 0058) and pc-relative code in one hunk.
• Test tool fix: our page-timing tool now counts a page as finished once the network has been quiet for 2 seconds. Pages with endless animations (such as Reddit) were timed at its 160-second limit before; the browser itself was never that slow.

Measured in lab copies of two real OS 3.2.3 instances, installed with the Installer (seconds, loaded / painted):

Page	Instance-32 copy	Instance-14 copy
Test page	0.30 / 0.34	0.62 / 0.66
DOM bench	2.00 (JavaScript 1.51)	2.04 (JavaScript 1.47)
XHTML	0.32 / 0.34	0.42 / 0.44
Wikipedia	2.06 / 2.14	2.06 / 2.14
BBC News	4.46 / 18.40	4.40 / 16.76
Reddit, loaded	9.88	7.58

Known issues:

• Some sites say sessionStorage and MediaError are missing.
• Animated images in some adverts are drawn with stripes.
• After Reddit, the Amiga sometimes does not return to the Shell when the program ends.
• Execute Install has no free-space check before the LOCALE:Unicode copy (see above).

Extras in the archive: javascript.library, JS and JavaScriptEngine, and json.library.

SHA-256 of the archive: 419371abdfffcb51e7783eeb9f258debf9309bcd3ab257696ae4bb809d6708d1

Team 3

OpenBrowser test version, 22 October 2026

A test version of OpenBrowser for AmigaOS 3.2 (68040 with FPU), with every optimisation on main built in. Things will still go wrong; please report them.

Install: unpack OpenBrowser-test-20261022.lha and double-click Install-OpenBrowser. It runs in the Installer (SYS:System/Installer):

• It checks for OS 3.2 and a 68040 or 68060 with FPU.
• It asks where the drawer goes (Work: by default; it needs about 195 MB).
• It makes sure of opentls.library 1.2+, opencrypto.library 2.1+, json.library and the CA bundle. An older library is kept as *.before-20261022.
• If webbrowser.library is installed, it keeps the old engine as WebBrowserEngine.before-20261022 and makes LIBS:WebBrowser/WebBrowserEngine a small script that runs the new engine in the drawer. Every program using the library gets the new engine, and nothing big goes to System:.
• Nothing is deleted.

Novice, Expert and pretend mode all work, and the log goes into the installed drawer. From a Shell, Execute Install in the drawer does the same without questions.

The engine: WebKit at 54fe1539 with all 51 patches on main (0001–0052), built from a clean tree with OB_OPTIMIZE=js, OB_GC_SECTIONS=1 and OB_ICU_DATA=file (trimmed ICU data). That includes:

• the 68k template JIT and all its work (0020–0052);
• HTTP/2 and the HTTP disk cache;
• E-clock timers;
• the own malloc;
• OXP for XML;
• curl on OpenTLS;
• the size cuts.

OpenBrowser.engine is 89,680,744 bytes (0.7: 94,221,904). The visit cache (0018) is not included.

Measured in lab copies of two real OS 3.2.3 instances (ms, loaded / painted). Install was run first, as above.

Page	Instance-32 copy	Instance-14 copy	0.7-era engine, Instance-32 copy
Test page	320 / 360	620 / 660	680 / 760
DOM bench	2,120 (JS 1,580)	2,180 (JS 1,540)	4,620 (JS 3,460)
Wikipedia	2,140 / 2,200	2,120 / 2,220	4,060 / 4,240
BBC News	4,660 / 18,580	4,600 / 16,980	–
Reddit	9,560 / 12,600	6,680 loaded	19,180 / 20,860

Known issues:

• After Reddit, the Amiga sometimes does not return to the Shell when the program ends. This is also seen with the 0.7-era engine.
• Some sites say sessionStorage and MediaError are missing.

Extras in the archive: javascript.library, JS and JavaScriptEngine, and json.library.

SHA-256 of the archive: 7b9847ba3cce422e36995bf0fa6e06a3889a8ac587a8c0c74d6a4f8457626518

Team 3

OpenBrowser Lite 0.4.1

OpenBrowser Lite 0.4.1 for AmigaOS 3.2 (68040 with FPU): OpenLayout rendering, datatype pictures and the CSS cascade on OpenTLS. The full notes are in docs/RELEASE_0.4.1.md.

This release also tags main with the engine work that has gone in since: weblayout.library 1.0 (#24), the size-class allocator (#26), painting in the browser window (#25) and HTTP/2 through nghttp2 (#27).

Asset: OpenBrowserLite-0.4.1.lha, built by the OpenBrowser Lite CI on a5c1e98; Lite has no changes since then.
sha256 16e1dfed30743d1d1b00087a724f9454b341f132622adefc3622369211c380f3

MIT, The AmigaChrome Team.