Software : : Wayfarer 2.8 and Iris 0.128 available
Posted By: jacadcaps. on 2021/10/16 7:59:17
Wayfarer 2.8 is now available. This version focuses on various performance improvements, including Altivec support for various audio mixing routines in WebAudio, overall boost to mathematical operations thanks to a port of Apple's PowerPC optimized libm and rewritten feColorMatrix routines, up to 6 times faster than the standard WebCore code. This version also addresses various random crashes that were caused by a GCC bug when compiling in longcall mode.

Iris 0.128 fixes Yahoo account setup and comes with various other bugfixes and improvements, including the GCC longcall fix.

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Wayfarer changelog:

- Altivec code paths for a lot of WebAudio routines, optimized sin/cos computations in StereoPanner
- Fast code paths for feColorMatrix (approximately 6 times faster than WebCore code)
- Recompiled to fix a bug with longcalls in GCC, which caused it to miscompile the code in some cases leading to crashes
- Improved the ContentDisposition header parser in WebKit
- Detects expired certificates in the certificate viewer
- Added a way to delete saved self-signed certificates, disabled the ability to 'trust' invalid/expired (not self signed) certificates
- Fixed a regression in HTTP AUTH handling that caused downloads from password protected pages to fail

Iris changelog:

- Updated to OpenSSL3
- Fixed Yahoo OAuth2 account setup
- Recompiled to fix a bug with longcalls in GCC, which caused it to miscompile the code in some cases leading to crashes
- Better sanitization, duplicate address removal when in Reply All
 
  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Nice and unpayable work as always. Thank you! 👍
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    I just was wondering if there's a way to get Wayfarer, or even the whole of Ambient to allow a left mouse button press that's then held-down (not a click'n'release) in the scroll bar area to trigger a continuous movement of the scroll bar to the top or bottom or to the position of where the mouse button has been pressed originates from, as it does in Windows and Mac OSX? It really irritates me that I have to keep clicking when it should be catered for, logically, in the Operating System. :-?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    I have an intermittent broadband issues at the moment, that my ISP is aware of, caused by the telephone company not connecting the circuitry correctly, that is in the process of being fixed, but Wayfarer is unable to complete a textual update in "Ticket" in their webpages for support as the page generates a JavaScript textual based input field that I can enter text into, but the "Save" button does not upload the text, it changes to a blue colour as I'd expect, but the text is never transferred/activated for transfer to their "Ticket" system. :-?

    I am able to transfer the data via my Windows system, which is what I am reluctantly having to do, but I'd much prefer to have Wayfarer be able to handle the data/text transfer rather than me have to boot-up my Windows based system. :-(

    The eBay right mouse context pop-up menu in the eBay member message system is still not working, that offers a message to be opened in another tabbed window with v2.8, which has worked OK in previous Wayfarer versions, so I hope that is going to fixed again soon. :-(
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    I also thought as Wayfarer is becoming a more and more stable, and competent web-browser at handling most situations/other websites, will you be able to implement a drag'n'drop tab feature?

    I'm sure you know what I mean, but I'll describe it so that there's no confusion over what I mean. So, one tab in one part of the browser tabbed section can be left mouse clicked-on/left button held-down and then dragged to the left or right and placed where required instead of having to use the 'clunky' menu option of moving it just one place to the left/right at a time, so multiple times if you want to move it from one side to the other side if you have quite a few tabbed windows active?

    Also, compared to OWB when you right-click on a webpage link, you can choose to open a tab as the next/adjoining tab to the tabbed window, or use the middle-mouse button click to open it as whatever the default option is to open a link with such a click, usually for the same purpose (adjoining tab), which then opens when you choose that option, with Wayfarer currently it only opens the tab as the furthest right new tab in the Wayfarer tabbed section of the GUI. So, is it going to be possible/planned for to implement this functionality in Wayfarer in the near future?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    thx. Donated.
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