Features
OWB is a web browser designed for CE devices such as mobile phones, portable media players, Set Top Boxes and TV decoders, and any other consumer electronic product (GPS, home-gateways, Web-radios, PVR, DVD recorders, wireless devices etc.)
Galeking release is the new mixture of WebKit with Sand-Labs flavour. It is based on a day-to-day merging capability with WebKit while it still provides the easy to use, easy to implement and easy to test OWBAL abstraction layer.
OWB is licensed under BSD license, unless specified otherwise in WebCore/JSCore code where the original licenses apply (APSL, LGPL and BSD).
OWB for AmigaOS is a rapidly improving web browser based on Sand-Labs' Webkit implementation, that aims to provide modern web browsing experience for AmigaOS users. OWB is mainly targeted to AmigaOS4.1, but most of it works on AmigaOS 4.0 as well.
About the authors
The current AmigaOS 4.x port of OWB is developed by Jörg Strohmayer, based on Sand-Labs' Galeking release. The AmigaOS port of OWB Blastoise was started by Andrea Palmatè.
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Old releases
OWB 2.20 (20.12.2008) AmigaOS 4.x port of OWB Doduo.
OWB 1.21 (7.5.2008) AmigaOS 4.x port of OWB Blastoise.
Extras
OWB AddressBook 4.4 (10.6.2009)
OWBBook+fastlinks 1.4 (5.3.2009)
Donations
| OWB is free software, but please consider making a donation to if you want to support further development, thank you. |
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Changelog
- 3.15 (17.6.2009)
- Fixed a rendering bug (bugs.os4depot.net issues #198 and #200).
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #202, #203, #210 and #212.
- Updated to SVN revision 1006.
- Added some workarounds to prevent wrong redirection to WAP versions on broken sites like like http://www.microsoft.com/ and http://www.kauppalehti.fi/ (bugs.os4depot.net issue #213).
- No longer uncompresses when downloading, for example gzipped tar archives.
- 3.14 (8.6.2009)
- Fixed progress bar. Since the changes need new methods the text search is now disabled on AmigaOS 4.0.
- Fixed several cookie bugs, for example GMail and the URL from bugs.os4depot.net issue #131 are working now.
- Added more checks for broken font installations.
- Implemented HTTP authentication, partially based on the AROS OWB diffs with minor bug fixes, and added support for http://username:password@example.com/ urls (bugs.os4depot.net issues #121 and #149).
- Added support for scrolling with space and backspace (bugs.os4depot.net issue #169) and <shift><cursor up/down> (#186).
- Added ToolType DOWNLOADDIR (bugs.os4depot.net issue #154).
- Added ToolType DISABLEGIFANIMS.
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #170, #175, #180, #183 and #185.
- Added Accept-Language: header based on locale preferences.
- URL and web search gadgets did not always work if they weren't activated with the mouse, fixed.
- Updated to SVN revision 994 (OWB milestone Galeking).
- Changed <RAmiga><C> menu shortcut from "Copy" (UTF-8) to "Copy as {8 bit locale charset}" (bugs.os4depot.net issue #176).
- Added support for closing the current window/tab with <ESC> (bugs.os4depot.net issue #187).
- Updated SplashLauncher to version 1.3 (bugs.os4depot.net issue #117).
- Added new toolbar images and updated scripts from Martin Merz.
- 3.13 (15.5.2009)
- Updated to SVN revision 938.
- Fixed text selection when used together with mouse wheels.
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #143, #147, #150, #151, #156 and #159.
- Added support for the locale charset when pasting texts from the clipboard.
- Moved the large ICU data into a shared library.
- Enabled textarea resizing.
- Fixed http://crashlog.os4depot.net/cl190 cl191 and cl193.
- Unsupported protocols like mailto: can be passed to an external program now (tooltype OPENURL).
- OWB now tries to create the font families itself since a lot of users use wrong .otag files.
- Implemented text search (bugs.os4depot.net issue #45).
- 3.12 (25.4.2009)
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #134, #135, #136, #139 and #140.
- Fixed http://crashlog.os4depot.net/cl173 cl175, cl176, cl177, cl178, cl179 and cl181.
- Updated curl-ca-bundle.crt.
- Updated to SVN revision 920.
- Fixed clicktab problems.
- 3.11 (18.4.2009)
- Updated to SVN revision 915.
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #120 and #129.
- Updated about: contents.
- Improved font selection if the webcore fonts are not installed.
- Changed rendering method reducing the CPU usage if there are several changes, for example GIF anims, done at the same time, and when entering texts.
- Included new icons, toolbar and scrollbar images and scripts from Martin Merz.
- 3.10 (14.4.2009)
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #70, #97, #103, #112, #116, #118 and #127.
- Fixed http://crashlog.os4depot.net/cl166
- Updated to SVN revision 912.
- Reimplemented downloads based on the new OWB implementation.
- Fixed a bug in the StringView compare function for complete URLs.
- Implemented support for font family lists and aliases (Courier <> Courier New, Times <> Times New Roman and Helvetica <> Arial).
- 3.9 (29.3.2009)
- Updated StringView, should work when using OWB on an own screen now.
- Added an error requester to StringView if expat.library can't be opened.
- Reverted the 3.7 cookie changes as they broke more than they fixed, it's tooltype COOKIES and a plain text file instead of the database again.
- Fixed iconify bugs when using tabs.
- 3.8 (27.3.2009)
- Fixed ARexx GETTITLE returning frame names instead of the titles.
- When loading a page fails OWB displays an error message now.
- Added support for file:// URLs with AmigaOS paths and using a file name as argument when starting OWB from shell.
- Fixed double and trippe clicks.
- Fixed bugs.os4depot.net issues #93 and #101 (bookmark crashed on iconify if OWB is running on an owb screen).
- Updated to SVN revision 885.
- Removed AmigaOS 4.x cookie workarounds since OWB has support for persistent cookies again. Removed COOKIES tooltype and added COOKIEDB instead.
- Disabled a wrong cookie security check, for example GMail works now.
- Implemented downloads.
- Now uses an extended string gadget with history created by Rene W. Olsen and Stephen Fellner for the URLs.
- Added about: page created by Samir Hawamdeh.