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Wayfarer is the latest web browser for MorphOS, based on a recent branch of WebKit.
Features
Based on a Jan-2024 WebKitGTK tree, supports most modern websites
Audio playback including HLS
Video playback including MediaSource support
Built-in AdBlock Plus files support
Download and Bookmarks managers
Encryption of passwords via cryptostorage.library
Support for custom / self-signed server certificates
Written in ObjectiveC and C++
HISTORY:
Version 7.8
Fixed a regression in OpenURL support
Improved handling of Open File and OpenURL to allow loading of files with non-ascii characters
Version 7.7
Fixed WebAnimations support
Fixed several issues with the internal refresh loop
Fixed taking screenshots of scrolled-down pages
file:// handling fixes
Updated libxml2
Version 7.6
Fixed a bug in Youtube steering
A/V synchronization fixes
Improved handling of audio stream switching when playing media in MSE mode
Version 7.5
Fixed HLS Live video playback (live Youtube streams on mobile frontend)
Fixed reported crashes
Version 7.4
Reworked the Settings UI
It's now possible to use different browser settings for the 1st path component of an url
Added a special Youtube setting that can cause direct loads of www.youtube.com to redirect to mobile or tv pages
Optimizations in how per-url settings are handled internally
Fixed a race in video player
Fixed a regression where resolving a mimetype from file extension for remote resources would get overriden to an incorrect mimetype
Fixed reported crashes
Version 7.3
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.5
Version 7.2
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.4
Adjusted JSString maximum length limit
Version 7.1
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.3
Fixed a network thread deadlock when resuming downloads
Changed the '+' button to always adds tabs at the end
URL bar would stay empty when moving a tab to a new window, fixed
Selection redraw issues fixed
Added Save Screenshot to the Debug menu
Worked around and fixed reported crashes
Version 7.0
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.42.2
Improved clipboard support
Fixed the saved passwords editor
Version 6.6
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.40.5
DOM Timer throttling may now increase over time when enabled in settings
Re-configured DOM timer intervals to improve performance on some websites
Added a workaround for PayPal rendering issues
Version 6.5
Updated User-Agent code, Safari is now the default user-agent on new installs
Fixed a crash if ahi.device has failed to open
Fixed a problem with AdBlock code blocking all requests if loading of its data has failed
Version 6.4
Fixed a race condition in audio playback initialization
Version 6.3
Rewritten the audio decoder to use AHI's device interface
Fixed a bug in the MSE media player where a video that's played till the end could not be replayed
Fixed a regression when closing tabs
Fixed a problem with media duration not being correctly reported to the HTMLMediaElement, leading to things like YT's seeking not working or Bandcamp not skipping to the next track
Checks if Core web fonts are missing and runs WebFontsInstaller when prompted
Version 6.2
Added AdBlocker settings with three different data sets
Improved search vs URL detection in the URL string
Added "Paste and Go" to the URL string context menu
New tabs are now being added after the active tab (can be changed in Settings/Interface)
Added a Font Code Path setting and changed the default to Simple on slower machines. This was previously forced to Complex to allow ligature handling, but could lead to very poor performance when editing text, etc
Fine-tuned redraw handling while editing text
Updated EasyList AdBlocker data
Updated libwebp to address its various recent CVEs
Updated sqlite, nghttp2, curl and psl libraries
Version 6.1
Downloads and network cache writes now use asyncio.library
Adjusted SSL ciphers to try to default to ones that are faster on PowerPC (prefer CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 over AES)
Checks whether lo0 interface is enabled and warns if not (Wayfarer is unable to resolve DNS addresses with loopback interface disabled)
Improved error handling in auto-updater
Version 6.0
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.40.2
Implemented Bookmarks filtering
Password manager now stores port numbers too, making it possible to have multiple services requiring login handled on the same domain (as a side effect, all old passwords have been promoted to port 443/https)
Added a popup if audio initialization has failed
Added a way to manually add passwords in the Password Settings
Youtube MSE playback improvements
Fixed HTTP authentication popup saving credentials for a wrong host in case of redirection
Fixed a redraw issue when opening print panel while page is still loading
Fixed to default mimeType to text/html if missing in response from server
Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks
Updated libnix and libpng16 both with additional Altivec optimizations
Updated libxml2, libwebp
Version 5.5
Wayfarer will now auto-update on quit when using the Check for updates functionality
Fixed a bug in Downloads window which wouldn't always allow resuming a failed download
Enabled mjpeg support in ffmpeg (enables audio playback in JellyFin)
Updated cURL
Version 5.4
Fixed a resource leak when a download was initiated with a click on a link to a file, which would eventually exhaust allowed connections to a host
User Scripts can now be bundled with a CSS file
Updated cURL
Implemented an (advanced) setting to tweak HTTP/2 support in order to workaround issues with some servers and cURL
Updated bundled youtube scripts. See the FAQ for instructions on how to update scripts
Version 5.3
Fixed file:/// handling to resolve issues with relative file schema URIs
Added a workaround for a NetStack bug in MorphOS 3.14-3.18 that potentially trashes memory via bogus errno pointer
Updated cURL and sqlite
Version 5.2
Enabled Async Clipboard APIs in WebKit (fixes github.com being very slow)
Added a Youtube userscript that removes gradients from the player area
Updated easylist adblock data
Version 5.1
Fixed a MediaSource player crash if the incoming chunk has a higher # of streams than the current chunk
Download As asl's path can now be stored separately from the standard download path
Avoid redraws when WebKit calls a scroll function despite offsets not changing
Improved tab key navigation
Hotkey tweaks
Version 5.0
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.38.5
Added a setting to place the cookies SQL database in RAM and synchronize it on quit/periodically to reduce disk I/O
Added a User Scripts manager UI
Bookmarks editor UI improvements
Version 4.9
Added a workaround for YT changing quality mid-stream by simply feeding the player video data in different format instead of using the MSE APIs to do this
Added a workaround for MSE initialization race with seeking for streams not starting at pos=0
Updated cURL and nghttp2 libraries
Updated EasyList
Version 4.8
Cherrypicked a cURL fix for socks proxies failing
Version 4.7
Removed the requirement of latest openssl3.libary in order to run Wayfarer
Update check will also optionally check if openssl3.library is latest
Localization strings cosmetics
Version 4.6
Fixed a race condition in OffscreenCanvas leading to use after free
Fixed the 'Import HAR' button in the Web Inspector
Drag image handling improvements
Implemented drag images for links
Changed the cURL thread priority
Updated cURL, png, webp and sqlite libraries
Version 4.5
Updated libcURL to fix issues with HTTP/2
Version 4.4
Massive performance gains in decoding of large file images
Loading progress bar colour can now be configured in Interface settings
Cherrypicked OffscreenCanvas fixes from latest WebKit sources
Added handling of very long filenames when finalizing a download
Fixed a bad free call in the media decoder
Disabled some stray debug
Version 4.3
Implemented the full WebKit WebInspector
Deprecated Eruda
Enabled anchor's download attribute
Implemented download support for data blobs and data URLs
Fixed BigInt64 types in TypedArrays
Optimized some TypedArray operations
Version 4.2
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.8
Updated cURL and other libs
Version 4.1
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.7
Updated EasyList AdBlocker database
Updated cURL and other libs
Version 4.0
Rebased to WebKitGTK 2.36.3
HLS stream qualities also accessible from the Media menu
Updated cURL and other libs
Version 3.9
Implemented ClearKey DRM support for HLS media streams
Implemented HLS stream quality switching accessible from the media popup
Added configurable touch events emulation (think Youtube-Mobile seeking slider)
Refactored the HLS player to allow MPEG-TS playback
Live HLS streams now start playing closer to the current time
Improved stream end position reporting to get some streaming services correctly skip to next stream after playing ads
Updated libcurl
Version 3.8
Implemented basic drag & drop of web elements within a page
Fixed scrollbar positions after switching between tabs
Version 3.7
Rewritten MediaSource player state machines to improve seeking, end-of-stream handling
Fixed a bug that caused a/v decoders to keep increasing the read-ahead decoded frame buffers infinitely (causing out-of-memory sooner or later during playback)
Fixed a memory leak in a/v de-multiplexer
Refactored the HLS player to enable seeking in terminated playlists
Reduced the memory footprint of MediaSource playback
Fixed video position reporting for MediaStreams w/o an audio track
Rewritten the right mouse button handling
Improved the media popup, added stream information
Fixed input handling in fullscreen mode
Updated OpenJPEG
Version 3.6
Added code to skip redraws of web contents entirely when Wayfarer is on an invisible screen
Added an Amazon Fire Stick user agent to settings, works well with youtube.com/tv
Removed 'Skip All Frames' loop filter option
Fixed a possible crash in the MediaSource player
Checks if a file exists and asks to overwrite in Download As.. requester
Version 3.5
Fixed a mis-compilation regression in JSCore
Version 3.4
Fixed a regression in HTTP AUTH handling
Version 3.3
HTTP HEAD requests to resources would poison the Curl disk cache with 0-byte files, leading to websites failing to load/work correctly
Minor speed improvements in JavaScriptCore and timing code
Improved refresh speeds when typing text on websites showing animated contents as you type
The HLS player will iterate through all streams of the master playlist now if a selected sub playlist fails to play
Re-worked post-seeking playback restart to avoid auto-start of streams that start playback from non-0 position
Fixed audio buffer under-run handling
Invisible video streams fixed not to enable overlay
Improved invalid certificate error handling UI flows
Disabled touch events support
Version 3.2
Implemented WOFF/WOFF2 fonts support
Improved ligatures support
Worked around a possible crash in JavaScript
Fixed the Polish catalog's encoding
Version 3.1
Fixed a crash on exiting fullscreen mode
Version 3.0
Updated WebKit code base to the WebKitGTK 2.34.6 release
Added a Media menu with playback controls hotkeys
Added cookie/cache cleaning menu options
Password save requester pops up on more sites now
No longer writes partial files into the Curl cache
Launcher removes PROGDIR:ICU since it is no longer required
Fixed downloads from itch.io
Improved network error handling in the media player
Cleaned up console log output into dprintf
Fixed the base URL for HLS media chunks (fixes cnn.com, etc)
Version 2.9
Implemented Proxy settings
Added right mouse button override settings that make it possible to open the default context menu on websites that try to block it
Fixed several edge cases where Wayfarer's url bar wouldn't correctly show page's url
Added code to handle "ContentDisposition: attachment" to trigger downloading instead of displaying the target url
Fixed 'Reload' to work after a failed page load
Downloaded filename had 1st letter truncated in some cases due to a bug in header parsing
Enabled USE_NEW_THEME in WebKit to change how some controls are drawn
Default CSS tweaks to prevent invisible checkboxes/radio buttons
Version 2.8
Altivec code paths for a lot of WebAudio routines, optimized sin/cos computations in StereoPanner
Fast code paths for feColorMatrix (approximately 6 times faster than WebCore code)
Recompiled to fix a bug with longcalls in GCC, which caused it to miscompile the code in some cases leading to crashes
Improved the ContentDisposition header parser in WebKit
Detects expired certificates in the certificate viewer
Added a way to delete saved self-signed certificates, disabled the ability to 'trust' invalid/expired (not self signed) certificates
Fixed a regression in HTTP AUTH handling that caused downloads from password protected pages to fail
Version 2.7
Worked around random crashes that may have been observed in 2.6
Significantly improved performance of various threading checks across WebKit
Worked around an issue in objc runtime that caused Wayfarer to stall during download notifications. Do note that notifications must be reconfigured in Magic Beacon as some keywords have changed.
Improved handling of websites that constatly request http auth credentials instead of caching the state
Version 2.6
Implemented Web Notifications and Download notifications via Magic Beacon. See the FAQ for more information
Added browser tab pinning (via tab context menu). Disables tab close button and hotkeys
Use Clipboard unit 1 for HTML paste operations like Odyssey does
Linked against OpenSSL 3.0
Fixed a WebAudio crash on bahn.de
Enabled Intersection Observer (fixes github.com)
Fixed an issue which caused some of the settings to display wrong state when opening settings for a given host directly from the menu
Version 2.5
Fixed a severe memory leak in JavaScriptCore, up to 5MB+ were being leaked per one page load in case of websites using SQL/IDB
Fixed to terminate Audio Worklet threads (which has also leaked a JavaScript VM) on pages using WebAudio
Implemented a warning (yellow shield icon) for mixed HTTPS/HTTP website content
Updated OpenSSL to 1.1.1l
Fixed a bug in Curl backend / networking that caused WebSockets to fail
Removed MorphOS 3.14 threading workarounds
Lowered WebAudio audio thread priority
Fixed Download Image As... to popup a requester
Disabled Download As window's menu
Fixed double-clicking on downloaded items in Downloads view where Download As was used
Version 2.4
Implemented Download As...
WebAudio support for sample playback (while Google Translate text to speech works just fine, most online MOD players will be too slow)
Implemented a Media flags popup
Improved SSL certificate verification to avoid cases where a website wouldn't load due to cert not matching the hostname, but cert viewer window would assume the cert is fine and would not present buttons allowing to ignore/save cert
Worked around an issue that prevented further popups from showing up if the main window was resized while a popup was up
Reload button state wasn't properly refreshed when switching between tabs
Fixed a crash and status bar issues when browsing page history for cached pages
Certificate viewer may now be localized
Version 2.3
Reimplemented fullscreen support to display contents on a separate screen
Implemented HLS stream A/V synchronization for streams that contain no timestamps
MediaSource playback improvements, including workarounds for broken websites
Implemented code to stall the video pipeline when audio stalls
Fixed a crash in ffmpeg h264 decoder
Version 2.2
Fixed duration handling in the Media Source player
Disabled focus frame on some elements since it wasn't always redrawn correctly
Fixed a low-memory related crash in the PNG decoder
Tweaked ICU data checks to try and detect broken installations
Added a workaround for Wayfarer not shutting down (may still be up to 30s)
Fixed setting media playback variables after prefs were reset
Version 2.1
ICU files will now be loaded from PROGDIR if missing in MOSSYS
Updated EasyList adblocker data
Fixed wheel scrolling in subframes
Fixed a race condition in HLS player
Fixed a widely reported crash in H264 decoding
Fixed a potential crash in bookmarks code
Version 2.0
Rebased to latest stable WebKitGTK (2.32.1)
Implemented Dark Mode
Fixed a crash in HLS video playback
Worked around an issue preventing sites from loading, etc after quit confirmation requester got cancelled
Fixed webkit message log functionality that crashed if the resulting message contained formatting sequences
Changed rendering of elements like checkmarks that were missing on some websites
Out-of-RAM crashes no longer bring up the Send Bugreport messagebox
Version 1.21
Fixed a crash on player exit
Fixed an issue where player settings weren't correctly applied when loading pages
Fixed an issue where wrong player settings were used in some code paths
Fixed a problem with quitting Wayfarer
Version 1.20
Mitigated a problem with TLS that would often cause crashes when Wayfarer was used alongside Iris
Addressed some potential ffmpeg abort() calls as seen in bugreported crashes
Fixed to trim long titles in Tabs menu
Version 1.19
Implemented video playback statistics (Youtube's Stats for Nerds will now show decoded frame counts, etc)
Fixes in HLS Live playback on YT
Reduced frame drops when playing video
Fixed to correctly display rotated photos
Version 1.18
Fixed to update page's url when traversing history
Updated ffmpeg to 4.4
Improved player's handling of bogus stream data
Partially mitigated a player memory leak
Version 1.17
Media playback settings are now per-host
Removed the media playback popup requester mode
Various improvements in the player pipeline, including improved HLS
Version 1.16
Disables screensaver while playing video
Fixed a crash when shutting down the video decoder
Version 1.15
Enabled Media playback on PowerPC CPUs without Altivec
Improved audio seeking
Fixed switching between playing multiple streams
A lot of MediaSource player improvements, fixes in quality change, seeking, re-play
Fixed playback of HLS videos
Version 1.14
Fixed a regression in cURL code
Version 1.13
HLS support can now be disabled in settings
Fixed a regression in cURL code
Fixed a crash in media playback initialization
Minor player improvements
Disabled media playback support for CPUs other than the G4 and G5 family
Version 1.12
Overlay based video playback, requires updated cgxvideo.library (included in the archive)
Experimental MediaSource support
Added a Media settings tab
Improved HLS audio playback
Implemented basic fullscreen (window) mode
Implement redraw throttling to prevent pages from taking up all the CPU time for redraws
Updated to the latest FFMpeg4
Updated to latest OpenSSL and cURL
Fixed Wayfarer being stuck on quit forever
Fixed issues with invalid download sizes for large files or with unknown size
Fixed Tab->Move to New Window...
Fixed an bug where chunked file uploads would fail
Improved resource cleanup on page hibernation
Version 1.11
Optimized Curl cache warm-up to be several magnitudes faster
Don't popup download requesters for webpage components that have no valid mime type and aren't the main url itself
Updated EasyList filter data
Optimized not to attempt loading media at all if the page settings are set to block it
Reworked localizable string formats to use @key@ instead of %d, etc to avoid crashes with incorrect translations
Improved handling of custom/unsupported protocols
Fixed Offline Storage settings UI
Fixed Recently closed tabs menu
Fixed a networking crash
Fixed a memtrash in the loader code when closing Wayfarer on its own screen
Version 1.10
Fixed a potential crash in AHI code
Version 1.9
Implemented an audio player, including audio in video files
Codec coverage basically the same as in Odyssey, with Opus and MPEG-TS support added
Implemented HLS chunk-based media playback for many live radio streams
Configurable popup on media load, with download option
Fixed a case where mouse pointer would no longer change above links after scrolling with mmb
Fixed not to mangle the file path after resuming a download with name prefix set
Fixed to disable menus in several popup windows
Fixed to ensure the Sessions folder is always present
Worked around a race condition in MUI where it would crash trying to show a help bubble for a tab being closed at the same time
Version 1.8
Added jpeg2k support via OpenJPEG
Reports browser locale based on system locales
Added a Translation service support w/ settings
Added session quicksave hotkeys
Improved wheel scrolling and mouse cursor code
Adjusted page/wheel scrolling deltas to be in-line with WebCore's suggested values
Scrolling page content is now possible with mmb pressed
Esc key deactivates the WebKit container, instead of being swallowed
Improved the cURL thread loop
Various UI improvements in the Printing Mode
Improved shutdown times
Linked against latest OpenSSL 1.1.1i and cURL 7.74.0
Fixed RMB to not select word under cursor if there already is a selection in editable components
Fixed pasting text into editors handling paste via JS/DOM Events
Fixed a crash in FavIcon loader
Fixed a crash when logging into AppleID
Fixed a crash when closing a window with tabs that are pending website load
Fixed early startup issues where OpenURL could send OPEN commands before Wayfarer fully initializes
Fixed a race condition in curl cache handling
Fixed a use-after-free when closing a window or loading a session
Worked around a bug causing some localized strings to be empty
Download name scheme is stored when a download begins, so subsequent settings changes won't affect it
Page reload actually skips curl caches now
Command keys are no longer eaten by webkit
Loader now catches all ObjC terminal errors
Version 1.7
Implemented an optional online version check
Added a Safari/iPad spoofing option
Tweaked to save settings periodically after edits
Added Local Storage and Application Cache settings
Enabled Application Cache
Worked around servers that compress file downloads
Fixed a crash when opening host settings from menu
Version 1.6
Fully WSIWYG printing system
Spell checking support
Undo/Redo support
Networking thread optimized to use less CPU
Built with optimized OpenSSL for faster HTTPS connections
Added tons of help bubbles across the app
Added an option to log console messages to ramdebug
Added quit requester options to the Settings tab
Added a setting to popup downloads tab on new downloads
Tries to use current tab for Downloads/Settings/Bookmarks if empty
Added an Error column to the download list
Added a context menu to the download list (copy path/url)
Download URL updates on redirects
'Download' Context menu will now use OpenURL for ftp/mailto links
Fixed resuming of downloads after error
Fixed to handle multiselection in the download list
Improved the Stop/Reload button; Reload forces a full reload (disregarding disk caches)
Fixed ctrl key handling in the text editor
Fixed a nasty 5 random-address bytes memtrash at the end of JS Promise handling that was the main source of instability on pages like PayPal, ebay, etc
Fixed a use-after-free in WTF's file system support
Fixed a crash when editing quicklink submenus
Prevents re-opening screen when loading a session
Disabled a bunch of memtrashing code paths in audio processing support
Fixed an out-of-mem crash in WebCore's JPEG decoder
Fixed a crash when adding quicklinks
Fixed size overflow on >4GB downloads
Fixed a potential browser crash after a hibernation
Version 1.5
Wayfarer now starts via a loader app
Added an early loading splash window, shutdown splash window (via loader)
Crashes in Wayfarer are caught by the loader which cleans up the windows and as many resources as possible, usually allowing a restart of the application
Implemented a way to send bugreports directly after a crash, including debug information and the most recently visited URLs
Added Eruda web inspector integration
It's now possible to select a session to load on application start or automatically re-store the previous state
Sessions store the active tab
Enabled the Intersection Observer in WebCore
Reduced the number of SQL file writes
Separate interpolation setting for image links
Quicklink buttons respect favicon settings, update on favicon changes
Added a file requester to the downloads path in Settings
Added quit confirmation requester settings
Fixed navigating to wayfarer:// links without explicitly doing it from the menu
Fixed CPU clock detection code
Fixed a double-start issue where the 2nd instance would not quit
Fixed a potential crash in favicon code
Fixed right shift key handling in some hotkeys
Fixed tab button backgrounds
Fixed ghost effects after closing tabs on some MUI configurations
Version 1.4
Fixed an issue where adding a link to bookmarks via menu would try to insert it to a wrong tree node in a Bookmarks tab
Rolled back some compilation setting tweaks since they were causing issues on some G4 cpus
Version 1.3
Minor performance improvements, mostly on G5
Fixed lists in settings displaying no text, sometimes crashing
Fixed url string background offsets
Activate an exiting tab instead of adding a new one for downloads/bookmarks/settings
Fixed tab buttons becoming invisible or corrupt on some configs
Fixed an issue where adding a link to quick links via menu would display them in a wrong location in the Bookmarks tab
Fixed quicklink buttons to respect releasing mouse of of button bounds
Version 1.2
Implemented Quick Links
Implemented favicons
Enabled support for WebP images
Updated libcurl
Fixed blob: support
Fixed file name encoding and cookie issues in downloads
Fixed Bookmarks menus to show more depth levels
Fixed a crash on exit caused by the password autofill manager
Fixed a crash on exit in WebCore's fileapi
Fixed Copy image URL context menu function
Version 1.1
Implemented Search Engines settings UI
Implemented a 'Do not ask to save passwords' setting
Space+Shift does reverse scroll now
Updated to latest OpenSSL and nghttp2
Fixed handling of IDN/Unicode chars typed into the URL bar
Fixed loading of files from the Curl cache, which in some cases resulted in images failing to decode (or decode as text)
Fixed SCREENTOFRONT
Fixed the default CSS file load path (caused default radios and checkmarks to be missing on some sites)
Fixed an issue with sticky border scrollers
Fixed not to leak the volume name when uploading files straight from the volume root path
Implemented workarounds for OpenURL callers that don't pass correctly escaped URIs (like YAM)
Updated the OWB importer
Version 1.0
Initial public release for MorphOS 3.14
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