Welcome to OWB for AROS

News

  • 30.10.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.9 is out. Added support for multiple browser windows, main menu, fixed some bugs - check README for details.
  • 28.06.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.8 is out. Fixed a couple of bugs, added download speed meter.
  • 21.06.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.7 is out. Added bookmark manager, fixed most important bugs - check README for details.
  • 11.06.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.6 is out. Fixed problem with crashing preferences window.
  • 10.06.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.5 is out. It contains fixes for bugs introduced in OWB 0.9.4.
  • 06.06.09 - OWB for AROS 0.9.4 is out. Unfortunately it appeared to contain a lot of new bugs present in mainstream OWB sources, therefore it's recommended to avoid upgrading to this version until these problems are resolved.

What is OWB?

Origyn Web Browser 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.)

What is AROS?

The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer. It's an independent, portable and free project, aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS 3.1 at the API level (like Wine, unlike UAE), while improving on it in many areas. The source code is available under an open source license, which allows anyone to freely improve upon it.

What is OWB for AROS?

AROS port of Origyn Web Browser is a Zune-based application created by Stanisław Szymczyk as one of the requirements of Port an Open Source Browser To AROS bounty. It's using OWB encapsulated in a Zune class as a rendering engine.

Getting Sources

AROS-specific changes made to original OWB sources are currently contained within a patch maintained in AROS Subversion repository. Later they will be incorporated into OWB source code. Sources of Zune-based browser are maintained in AROS Subversion repository.

To get the patch and the browser sources download contrib sources snapshot from AROS download page.

Compiling

Building of OWB for AROS is possible from within the AROS build system. Issue 

make aros-tcpip-apps-owb

command to build OWB for AROS.

Running

OWB for AROS requires AROS build from 19.02.2009 or newer to run. If your AROS installation is older and you don't want to reinstall the whole system, you can try updating only arosc.library and muimaster.library, but there's no guarantee that it will work correctly.

Starting from 24.03.2009 AROS contains updated codesets.library that is incompatible with the previous version. Updated library will cause OWB to crash (see ticket #43), so if you want to use OWB on recent AROS builds you have to replace codesets.library with a previous version from some older build or Icaros distribution. Starting with 0.9.3 release OWB will work correctly with the updated codesets.library.

Before bugfixes from 06.06.2009 AROS C library returned time in local time zone instead of UTC. Because of this using OWB 0.9.4 and newer with AROS versions older than 06.06.2009 may cause premature expiration of cookies.

If you can't move bookmark entries in bookmark manager you have too old muimaster.library. Version from 19.06.2009 or newer is needed.

Contributing

Localization

So far OWB for AROS has been localized into the following languages: Czech, English, German, Italian, Polish and Russian. If you'd like to add another language to this list plase follow the procedure described here.

Bug reports and feature requests

You can report bugs and propose new features by using this tracker, but you have to register first.

If you are going to use this tracker on OWB for AROS then note that it supports authentication challenges starting from version 0.9.3. In older versions you have log in to the bug tracker by writing your username and password directly in the URL:

http://username:password@www.sand-labs.org/aros

Then simply click Login button and you will be logged in.

Note that some characters in login and password may need additional encoding, you can use some online url encoding tool for that purpose.