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Charlie Balogh

Wayfarer 9.0 released - a new major version of the only cutting-edge web browser for Amiga-like systems. It runs on MorphOS 🦋 and sports an updated @WebKitGTK engine at version 2.46.5.

This post was created with MorphOS and Wayfarer 9.0.

@chainq @WebKitGTK works pretty well, but it's a bit sluggish on G4@533 (or whatever sits in that tower). But the compability is awesome.

@emil @WebKitGTK Well, it's slow, but it's a miracle it works. Basically, modern web engines are not "designed" to run on anything less than a quad core, with massive GPU cores and SIMD doing the heavy lifting. Several APIs are intentionally designed to run multiple threads that wait on each-other in a spinlock "for speed" and similar horror shows.

In a decade we somehow went from "the web works even on a toothbrush" to whatever this is, and the world did not even notice. 🤪 🤦‍♂️

@chainq @WebKitGTK You don't have to tell me, my primary home computer is Thinkpad X61T, it's on the edge of usable performance, but just barely. Despite being a fossil it still punches G4 lights out.

On a retro computers I use browser like I use Multiview. When I need to read something, not like a ghost OS on modern computers.