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Dave Yeo:
Ok, up till now when I've built Otter, it crashes on startup. Andy reported success with Dooble and not running acpi-daemon. Testing, the otter browser starts up and runs fairly well without acpi-daemon running. It is crashy, I tried this post in Otter and probably uploading the file crashed the browser.
Anyways, for testing purposes, here is today's build of the Otter browser from the main repository, no OS/2 patches yet, it runs surprisingly well considering. It is using the same webengine as Dooble-Qt5 so some pages will not display correctly.
Edit: fix the markup

Mike Kölling:
Hi Dave,

looks good for the first tests. I need to use a Win-Version of Otter to import booksmarks (as html) from my old Firefox, otherwise no issues by now.
Will try to get it working also in German languge, based on the version I installed in W7 running in my VBox/2, and let you know.

I'd like to express how much I appreciate your ongoing efforts to help OS/2 still beeing usable in 2024.

Greetings from Potsdam / Germany,
Mike

Amendment: I just copied the locale folder from the Win-Version into the folder I put your executable and now Otter starts in German language  :).

Martin Iturbide:
Hello Dave.

It is awesome. I'm trying it out lightly first. I will test it further.

Regards

Dave Yeo:
I should mention that running without acpidaemon doing power management is highly not recommended by David A. This computer's CPU was idling with 64C temperature and the danger is overheating the CPU.
I ended up changing \mptn\etc\acpid.cfg to PreferredMode=Power which on this box also allows Otter to run. It seems that using Power should not help as most computers don't support it and the daemon will fall back to None.
Note that the daemon has to be restarted to pick up changes to the PreferredMode, so rather kill it and run it detached again or reboot.

David McKenna:
Thanks Dave!

  This QT5 version does work and render pages (with ACPIDAEMON running on AOS in a virtual machine), but also crashes often on heavy javascript pages. I'm typing this in Otter now. I see a lot of '[warn] poll: socket operation on non-socket' messages in the console too.

Regards,

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