NetSurf
| NetSurf | |
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| Maintained by: | NetSurf developers |
| Description: | NetSurf is an open source web browser for RISC OS, licenced under the GPL. Its aim is to bring the HTML 4 and CSS standards to the RISC OS platform. |
| OS Restrictions: | RISC OS 3.5 or later |
| Languages: | Dutch, English, French, German |
| Alternatives: | Oregano, Firefox |
| Website: | http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ |
General
NetSurf is under constant development, and it is rare for there to be more than a few days' wait between development builds. Since NetSurf is open source, anyone can contribute to the project. The source repositories overview contains details about how to obtain NetSurf's source code.
Stable releases and development builds of NetSurf are available from the project's web site. Users are encouraged to help with NetSurf's development by testing the development builds and providing feedback to the development team.
Development builds are also available via the RiscPkg package management system. To make use of the RiscPkg package, edit Choices:RiscPkg.Sources to include the following line of text:
pkg http://www.netsurf-browser.org/builds/riscpkg/packages
Further information is available in the RiscPkg documentation.
In addition to the NetSurf application, distributions include packaged versions of:
NetSurf Links
- The latest stable release of NetSurf (currently version 1.2) is available from the NetSurf downloads page.
- Test builds are available on the development builds page.
- You may also wish to obtain a Flash plugin (only Flash 4 support is currently available), and some Unicode fonts. For further details see the RISC OS NetSurf user information page and the Recommended software section in this Wiki.
- There is an active user mailing list available to anyone wishing to use, test, or develop NetSurf.
- NetSurf is a SourceForge project.
- NetSurf Wikipedia article
