is it just me or is wayfarer not usuable anymore.
I remember getting a powerbook G4 and my first time running mos.
The OWB browser ran every web page i normally used on my PC with no issues at all.
I now use an isight 2.1ghz G5.
Cant hardly load anything.
I barely got youtube to load one video
and you need massive amounts of patience to even do that

If i have the wrong preferences could someone share their working prefs with me?
I have maxed out all caches in the OS and browser
filesystem, disk, browser

I can run OWB and its quite fast but of course its outdated and gets lots of errors
i tried netsurf but it wont load anything

my email is rll@twc.com if you have a working prefs for wayfarer.
I am licensed now
I updated wayfarer. i think its 11.1 now.
it self updated

im on os 3.19 now

So to use YouTube, you use a PC or a cell phone.
Morphos and a Mac aren't powerful enough to watch YouTube.
We have to accept it.
OWB is still usable on the major Amiga and e- sites.
That's why OWB is still used with such satisfaction.
For the rest, Wayfarer works great.
You have to be aware of what you can do with Morphos. For the rest, if you want convenience, you have to use a PC or a cell phone.
I have the same Mac as you, an iMac G5 Isight, and it's a wonderful machine, dual-booting with Sorbet Leopard.

thx. right next to my mac is a laptop with linux and a nvidia 5080
so im good

is there a website that will generate a web page for a slow computer. and just hand back a picture or something usuable
offload the work to the serer side?

https://blog.alb42.de/programs/amifox/

Amifox works on MorphOS, too.

https://blog.alb42.de/programs/amitube/

My prefered solution to watch Youtube Videos on MorphOS.

At the end of the day Wayfarer is very usable for a lot of things, much more than anything else I have tried on MorphOS for web browsing, dare I say and any other Amigaish system..

I use it daily work and fun and love it. Sure, you will run into a absolute wall with some website, as there is only so much a single processor and core can deliver, but given what it does and how well it is updated to the latest webkits. I'm frankly amazed, Jacek isn't a mortal programmer :)

Tips for Wayfarer to increase performance and make a noticeable difference (in my testing and on my system):
1. Turn on disk cache in system.
2. Turn on balanced for wayfarer in settings.
3. Use a proxy.
4. Make sure wayfarer is on the fastest device possible, even it is faster than the system can utilize.
5. Increase buffers for the Drive.

On my PowerMac 11,2 with SSD's, doing all 5 of those items made a very noticeable improvement with using wayfarer. I have no idea which ones make more of a difference, but after I did the above it made it much more usable.. ymmv...


[ Edited by matt3 30.03.2026 - 09:52 ]

Youtube videos should just work with default settings. I suggest you start from a clean install of Wayfarer if you're running into issues and reduce the video quality to 720/480p. Using Auto quality is the source of most issues since youtube might randomly try to switch to 1080p.

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Wayfarer is pretty impressive, it's the hardware that is slow. Look, I recently moved to SailfishOS for my mobile phone. I was pretty surprised that their inbuild browser is way beyond Wayfarer. Things were just not working. And Sailfish is YAL
And here, on this non-*nix system, we got a browser that works great which is really not a given.
Unfortunately the hardware is weak. And yes, Odyssey was way faster, I also miss the speed. But I appreciate very, very much that we have such a powerful browser- but you're better off, if not in a hurry

PS: on Sailfish I am now using Vivald via the Android wrapper. Vivaldi is pretty neat.