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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build

« Last post by David McKenna on September 15, 2024, 09:21:10 pm »

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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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build

« Last post by Dave Yeo on September 15, 2024, 08:34:15 pm »

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.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« Last post by Dave Yeo on September 15, 2024, 06:07:08 pm »

One thing is I haven't upgraded to the latest build. I'm using,

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Revision:        6.02.9
Date/Time:       27 Aug 2024 14:08:56
Build Machine:   ARCAOS-803C4C0
ASD Feature ID:  4C0
File Version:    6.2
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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build

« Last post by Martin Iturbide on September 15, 2024, 04:14:57 pm »

Hello Dave.

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

Regards

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Internet / Re: otter-browser, Qt5 build

« Last post by Mike Kölling on September 15, 2024, 02:54:39 pm »

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  .

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« Last post by Paul Smedley on September 15, 2024, 11:30:39 am »

interesting.... on two different machines (1x virtualised, 1x  real  hardware) I've managed to get otter-qt6 to render a page once.

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Internet / otter-browser, Qt5 build

« Last post by Dave Yeo on September 15, 2024, 04:37:47 am »

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

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« Last post by Dave Yeo on September 15, 2024, 04:15:38 am »

After killing acpidaemon, both my Qt5 and your Qt6 builds of Otter run fine. Thanks to Andy for the suggestion, he also mentions that Dooble doesn't hang without apcpdaemon running, even without single-process. More testing to do here.
OK, YouTube comes up slowly, UI displays, video does not run. Closing otter results in a sigsegv.
Edit: the down side of not running acpidaemon is the computer runs hot, 64C instead of about 25C at idle.

Ok, retrying the Qt6 build of Otter sees the start page, DuckDuckGo, display but nothing else seems to draw the canvas. Also when hovering over a tab, the preview  thumbnail shows up in the upper left of the desktop. The Qt5 build, which I'm typing this in, the preview shows up over the tab. Niether seems to actually draw the preview.
I'll start a new thread on the Qt5 Otter browser.
Edit: Another difference is the Qt5 build, after a crash, starts up with a session restore window. The Qt6 build doesn't.

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« Last post by Remy on September 15, 2024, 03:40:10 am »

  Tried changing settings, but nothing helped. One thing I noticed in 'Tools'->'Preferences'->'All settings' there is a 'Backends' selection where it shows 'qtwebkit' is the backend in use. When clicking on that to change it, it changes to 'Blink (experimental)' and qtwebkit is not a choice. Clicking again it changes to 'qtwebkit'. Wonder if this indicates confusion in the code about what backend to be using?

This behaves the same on linux -  and linux can render a page.

Also,  on OS/2  -  I do often see a bunch of these in the console:

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[warn] select: Socket operation on non-socket

Could it be some kind of initialization problem (sockets or vars)     

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Programming / Re: Qt6 Application Testing

« Last post by Dave Yeo on September 15, 2024, 03:36:30 am »

After killing acpidaemon, both my Qt5 and your Qt6 builds of Otter run fine. Thanks to Andy for the suggestion, he also mentions that Dooble doesn't hang without apcpdaemon running, even without single-process. More testing to do here.
OK, YouTube comes up slowly, UI displays, video does not run. Closing otter results in a sigsegv.
Edit: the down side of not running acpidaemon is the computer runs hot, 64C instead of about 25C at idle.