Back in June, Manette posted a news item mentioning François “mmu_man” Revol’s efforts to port the NetSurf browser to the BeOSes (yes, I’ve become too lazy to type “Haiku / BeOS / ZETA” anymore). Those efforts have borne fruit already: IsComputerOn recently reported that François has made a binary copy available for download.

I had a chance to give it a try on R5 and it seems to work quite nicely - the screenshot above shows NetSurf displaying BeOSNews.com (and doing a pretty decent job). In the comments over on ICO, François mentioned that libz.so must be installed - it isn’t included in R5 by default, but it is included in the LibPak available on BeBits. If you take NetSurf for a spin, keep in mind that the “netsurf” folder must be located in /boot/apps/ (otherwise you’ll see an error when trying to run the binary).

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