03-23-2024, 08:46 PM
I have seen this on really low powered systems, or when running in Qemu. FWIW, in the next release candidate I am dropping Badwolf and putting in Firefox-ers and the GTK version of NetSurf.
Though this may seem redundant, the logic here is that Badwolf is a bit too minimal for general purpose use. FF is very well established, capable, but a bit of a resource hog. NetSurf is pretty good with ram, has a rendering engine that is a cut above Dillo and Links2, but is not HTML5 compatible. Netsurf is good for a lot of websites, but can't do things like stream videos or interact with complex JS pages. Still, NetSurf is very good for interacting with websites like Wikipedia, Slashdot and the like.
In my opinion, interacting with the modern, bloated web is the most difficult part of resurrecting old hardware.
Though this may seem redundant, the logic here is that Badwolf is a bit too minimal for general purpose use. FF is very well established, capable, but a bit of a resource hog. NetSurf is pretty good with ram, has a rendering engine that is a cut above Dillo and Links2, but is not HTML5 compatible. Netsurf is good for a lot of websites, but can't do things like stream videos or interact with complex JS pages. Still, NetSurf is very good for interacting with websites like Wikipedia, Slashdot and the like.
In my opinion, interacting with the modern, bloated web is the most difficult part of resurrecting old hardware.