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Netsurf Browser

NetSurf is a lightweight, open source, multi-platform web browser written in C. It is fast, standards-compliant, and has low system requirements. Features include thumbnail previews of visited pages, local and global history, bookmarks, and support for many image formats. It runs on RISC OS, Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems.

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Netsurf Browser

NetSurf is a lightweight, open source, multi-platform web browser written in C. It is fast, standards-compliant, and has low system requirements. Features include thumbnail previews of visited pages, local and global history, bookmarks, and support for many image formats. It runs on RISC OS, Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems.

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Small as a mouse, fast as a cheetah and available for free.

NetSurf is a multi-p
latform web browser for RISC OS, UNIX-like platforms (including Linux), Mac OS X
, and more.
Whether you want to check your webmail, read the news or post to discussion foru
ms, NetSurf is your lightweight gateway to the world wide web. Actively develope
d, NetSurf is continually evolving and improving.
NetSurf screenshot See more screenshots
Written in C, this award winning open source project features its own layout eng
ine. It is licensed under GPL version 2.
Why choose NetSurf?
Speed
Efficiency lies at the heart of the NetSurf engine, allowing it to outwit th
e heavyweights of the web browser world. The NetSurf team continue to squeeze mo
re speed out of their code.
Interface innovation
Simple to use and easy to grasp, NetSurf significantly raised the bar for us
er interface design on the RISC OS platform. Designed carefully by RISC OS users
and developers to integrate well with the desktop, NetSurf is seen as the bench
mark for future applications. NetSurf pioneered the concept of web page thumbnai
ling, offering an intuitive graphical tree-like view of visited web sites.
Lean requirements
From a modern monster PC to a humble 30MHz ARM 6 computer with 16MB of RAM,
the web browser will keep you surfing the web whatever your system. Originally w
ritten for computer hardware normally found in PDAs, cable TV boxes, mobile phon
es and other hand-held gadgets, NetSurf is compact and low maintenance by design
.
Portable
NetSurf can be built for a number of modern computer platforms 'out of the b
ox'. Written in C, with portability in mind, NetSurf is developed by programmers
from a wide range of computing backgrounds, ensuring it remains available for a
s many users as possible.
Standards compliant
Despite a myriad of standards to support, NetSurf makes surfing the web enjo
yable and stress-free by striving for complete standards compliancy. As an activ
ely developed project, NetSurf aims to stay abreast of new and upcoming web tech
nologies.
See the project goals and progress page for further information on where NetSurf
is headed.
Want to help?
There are always things that need doing, and not enough time in the day, so we'd
be delighted if you want to help develop NetSurf. Visit the "How can I help?" p
age to see ideas for contributing to the project.
If you can program and you'd like to improve NetSurf, then we'd love to hear fro
m you. Pick an area you'd like to improve or a feature you want to add and conta
ct the developers. Also, take a look at the developer and contributor area of th
is site.
Download NetSurf 3.3
For RISC OS
For Linux
Other systems

Source code
Latest news
Development builds now using Duktape 12 Aug 2015
We have replaced the old version of SpiderMonkey that we used to use as our
JavaScript engine with Duktape, a lightweight engine which is more in keeping wi
th NetSurf's goals. While we're testing our new JavaScript implementation we are
forcing it on all the time in development builds. We'll return the "JavaScript
Enabled" option to being choices-controlled when we're happy we're back to featu
re/stability parity.
Developer weekend 27 Jul 2015
NetSurf's core developers met up at Codethink's office in Manchester to make
some progress on a couple of the big areas we've been planning for some time. W
e made a start at changing to use Duktape as the JavaScript engine, and started
outlining the shape of our new layout engine. For more details, see Vince's writ
e-up.
NetSurf 3.3 released 15 Mar 2015
NetSurf 3.3 is primarily a bug-fix release. Several of the front ends have r
eceived quite a bit of attention, with new features and improvements; notably th
e AmigaOS front ends has gained the beginnings of support for AmigaOS 3. We reco
mmend all users upgrade.
See more news
NetSurf 3.3 features
NetSurf 3.3 is available for: RISC OS; Linux and other UNIX-like systems; Mac OS
X; and AmigaOS 4.
General
Web standards: HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1
Image formats including: PNG, GIF, JPEG, SVG, and BMP
HTTPS for secure online transactions
Unicode text
Web page thumbnailing
Local history trees
Global history
Hotlist manager (bookmarks)
Cookie manager
URL completion
Text selection
Scale view
Search-as-you-type text search highlighting
Save pages complete with images
Fast, lightweight layout and rendering engine
RISC OS only
Image formats: Sprite, Drawfile and ArtWorks
Drawfile export
Awards
NetSurf won the award for "best non-commercial product" at The 2012/2013 RISC OS
Awards.
NetSurf picked up another accolade, winning in the "best non-commercial product"
category at The Icon Bar Awards 2009. NetSurf had previously been nominated by
The Icon Bar's readers.

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