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Other InterWeb (née Nightly55) Web Browser for Mac OS X 10.6

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Eccofonic said:
Before I try using it, does the new Interweb take over the old Interweb profile folder or does it create a new one?
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I’ve checked.

For now, it is relying on the same Basilisk directory which Nightly55 relied on.

I had the same thought prior to first launch, so I made a backup of my Interweb profile before launching the new Interweb Nightly.app (how I renamed it to distinguish it). The Interweb directory was unaffected.
 
The next will release will use the old interweb profile. We just finished the "full" rebranding the other day. This will also allow InTheBox and your already made custom box apps to work with the updated browser engine.

Cheers
 
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Made an account just to say you guys are awesome. Singlehandedly breathing life back into my 2010 MacBook :p

Edit: Do tabs apart from the initial first tab not appear for anyone else? I can make a new tab and interact with it just fine, just can't close it or really see it at all in the top bar. This wasn't an issue in Nightly55.

Edit 2: Disregard, this is fixed in the 3.17 release on wicknix's GitHub. I was still on 3.14.

Edit 3: Well, it worked on the new profile for a bit. I must have done something to break it again, lol.
 
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So... I've been having issues porting InTheBox to the new browser. With some new UXP builds it works, some builds it doesn't. Until i get a grasp on what is causing it to fail, i decided to create a standalone app for the time being with one of my builds it worked with. I took InTheBox, modified it, renamed it, and wrapped it and the browser all in to one app.

The new app is called InABox. This way it wont interfere with InTheBox and the apps that were created with it using the older InterWeb 60.9.9. Simply fire up InABox and create your apps like before. It will create new apps using the newer UXP backend. It will not update your old InTheBox apps though. You will need to recreate them with InABox if you want them to use the updated browser engine.

InAbox main window
InABox.png


Example of TwitchTV.app created with InABox
InABox-Twitch.png


Note: This app will only work on 10.6 Intel with Rosetta installed as the original FoxBox code was built for PowerPC.
Also InABox must be installed to /Applications in order for it to function properly.

Download here.

Cheers
 
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wicknix said:
So... I've been having issues porting InTheBox to the new browser. With some new UXP builds it works, some builds it doesn't. Until i get a grasp on what is causing it to fail, i decided to create a standalone app for the time being with one of my builds it worked with. I took InTheBox, modified it, renamed it, and wrapped it and the browser all in to one app.

The new app is called InABox. This way it wont interfere with InTheBox and the apps that were created with it using the older InterWeb 60.9.9. Simply fire up InABox and create your apps like before. It will create new apps using the newer UXP backend. It will not update your old InTheBox apps though. You will need to recreate them with InABox if you want them to use the updated browser engine.

InAbox main window
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Example of TwitchTV.app created with InABox
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Note: This app will only work on 10.6 Intel with Rosetta installed as the original FoxBox code was built for PowerPC.
Also InABox must be installed to /Applications in order for it to function properly.

Download here.

Cheers
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Amazing stuff, cheers.

But you know I’m really looking forward to InThatBox — for those web sites which happen to be a bit extra about feature bloat. :D
 
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It has been a while since I have looked at Basilisk (in before times, Palemoon's "Goanna", so a long time ago). This is great for filling in the gaps Lynx can't fill, plus making it a bit more convenient for referencing information or whatever when I am using SL. Not having to lean entirely on the smartphone or another computer is handy for some quick lookup or whatever. Thank you!
 
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Just like the other Mozilla based browsers does not work in Parallels with SL unlike Chrome.
 
Using this now on 3 Snow Leopard machines, Macbook 2,1 2007, Mac Mini 3,1 2009, Macbook Pro 8,2 2011. Weirdly, it's slowest on the 2007. Not weird, you say? But that's the snappiest of the three machines otherwise. Amazing OS. And now a great browser.
 
Jazzzny said:
I've finally settled into a new place, and I'm now in the process of getting everything unpacked. Expect a new release with a handful of improvements sometime within the next week.
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Hey! How is it going? I'm eager to see those improvements :)
 
Silly question - is there a way to switch off black theme for sites that support it?
I never ever use black background. It drives me nuts.
 
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I believe that is a remnant of wicknix's interweb settings. You can disable it in about:config -> browser.display.prefers_color_scheme -> set to 1.
 
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Jazzzny said:
I believe that is a remnant of wicknix's interweb settings. You can disable it in about:config -> browser.display.prefers_color_scheme -> set to 1.
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Thanks, I'll try it out.

Btw, the 78 crashed on my machine (10.6.8, MBP2011) while setting the Preferences. :(
I'll investigate the reason a bit later and will report back. For the time being I'll remain on @wicknix 's version from 2022
 
ojfd said:
In the dark? Ouch! It's not good for your eyes..
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Well, i set my monitors at very low brightness, and my laptops as well. I also use backlit keyboards. My eyes are very light sensitive. I even wear sunglasses at work in the warehouse because the fluorescent lights make me squint. Otherwise i get migraine headaches from squinting.

ojfd said:
Btw, the 78 crashed on my machine (10.6.8, MBP2011) while setting the Preferences. :(
I'll investigate the reason a bit later and will report back. For the time being I'll remain on @wicknix 's version from 2022
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You could try this build that i made back in March of 2024. It's the same build used inside InABox. It has some changes not found in the 'official' releases posted above. Let us know if that works without crashing. Thanks. It will also use the old 60.9.9's profile/settings/etc.
 
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wicknix said:
Well, i set my monitors at very low brightness, and my laptops as well. I also use backlit keyboards. My eyes are very light sensitive. I even wear sunglasses at work in the warehouse because the fluorescent lights make me squint. Otherwise i get migraine headaches from squinting.
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That's terrible. Flickering of the fluorescent lights might be the reason. If your eyes are so sensitive, you should pay attention to displays you are using too, because not all displays are created equal. You are aware of PWM issues and how to test for them, aren't you?
 
SnowLeoMac said:
As far as I can tell, it works mostly fine. I've found that Language Packs doesn't work: the browser recognizes them as installed but nothing changes.
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Did you find a way to get language packs up and running or do you know where to get language packs that should work with InterWeb Release 2024.03.14?
 
Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce the next release of InterWeb!

Screen shot 2024-12-14 at 11.44.40 AM.png

Plenty of new features and improved web compatibility support.

Download here: https://github.com/Jazzzny/interweb55-snowleopard/releases/tag/2024-12-14

If you run into any issues, please post them here and I'll try to resolve them.

Note: This release changes the Application Support directory where user data is stored, you may need to rename Application Support/Basilisk to Application Support/InterWeb.

As always, posted from Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
 
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Sadly Discord is still broken. It logs in, then crashes. Works fine with current UXP based browsers however. I haven't had the time to figure out the commits that'd fix this. Any ideas on this? Otherwise everything else within reason seems to work fine. :apple:
 
Unfortunately no versions of Pale Moon exhibit the same login -> crash behaviour, so its very difficult (at least for me) to figure out what differs between the Moebius and UXP codebases that lets one work and the other crash.

I've looked at the javascript console and the error is completely cryptic, so I don't think it is very useful at all for debugging.
 
Yeah, it’s odd. With the discord-2019.js (greasemonkey script) discord still works with TFF and my old versions of IW. What’s weird is that even with that script installed, discord still crashes with IW55. So yeah. It’s got me scratching my head as well.
 
the 2019 script only works if Discord errors so badly that it doesn't render at all (white page). Since IW55 starts loading Discord, the injected 2019 scripts are pretty much ignored.
 
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Jazzzny said:
"...Disable addon compatibility checking - permits for the easy installation of Pale Moon/Basilisk addons...."
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Ooo.... Can't wait to see how the combination of TabMixPlus (set to multi-row) and ThinTabs looks. (Basilisk handles them right, but Pale Moon implements leading wrong, and text is not vertically centered in thinned tabs.)

(bug-report: the multi-row tab feature of TabMixPlus is non-functional; creating excess tabs does not generate a new row.)
 
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