MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

The single biggest change since 1.5 is under the hood: MacSurf's JavaScript engine has been replaced. Duktape (ES5) is gone; MacSurf now runs macQJS which is a QuickJS port for Classic Mac OS and executes modern ES2023 JavaScript natively on Mac OS 9.

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anthk 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This needs to backported to main Netsurf ASAP.

	▲	mplsllc 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The most annoying bug I was able to fix that is also present up stream was this weird viewport, extra scroll bar, that would appear on some pages. I need to figure out how to get involved with the main repo if they'll have me.

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LetsGetTechnicl 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Writing a JS engine for OS 9 in 2026 is like, genuinely impressive

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crims0n 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is awesome and greatly appreciated, going to boot up my iMac G4 and give it a go.

	▲	mplsllc 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Awesome! Please let me know how it goes (good or bad) I am always open to feedback.

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pKropotkin an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not working, “Bad Parameter”

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system7rocks 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wow. Just wow, I will give this a run on my old iMac G4 later today. Very cool to see this progress, and I am a big fan of NetSurf.

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thisislife2 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I wish more people contributed to Netsurf and it gets the momentum it needs to compete with Blink, Gecko and Webkit. So many divided efforts in this area - there's Ladybird, Flow, Servo, Goanna. Even just improving Webkit and making it truly multi-platform (it isn't available for Windows, and the Linux version is apparently not as performant) would greatly even the field.

	▲	mplsllc 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Netsurf seems pretty closed in terms of who they allow to contribute. However, I need to look more into it and not use the excuse that it's "too complicated" to see if they are interested in my bug fixes.

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MetalSnake 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Awesome stuff! I love retro computing especially with Macs.

But it's a bit weird that old PPC Macs get modern browsers, but Intel Macs running 10.14 are stuck with Firefox 115esr.

	▲	Wowfunhappy 22 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They are not! https://github.com/aobaharuki2005/momiji-web-browser
	▲	cgyvbunji 33 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hmm, no, you have latest Chrome, via Boot Camp ;)