NeXTSTEP 3.3 Web Browser

Tom Moss tomjmoss at googlemail.com
Wed Nov 11 13:35:01 CST 2015


What document did you try to open?
I've never used OmniWeb or Nexis, but my experience with Mosaic and early
Netscape versions makes me think you'd have a hard time getting modern
pages to load without crashing.

I should think that Lynx or the original Line Mode browser would be OK.
http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Software/NEXTSTEP/Apps/Internet/WWW/Web%20Browsers/

-Tom

On 11 November 2015 at 18:57, Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently got a NeXTstation Turbo running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (with patch 2
> applied). It's a fresh install, and I have a complete set of floppies and
> disks, including the development CD. The system seems to be working great!
> I've burned a CD with OmniWeb 2.7 beta 3 and untar'ed it on the system.
> Unfortunately, when I try to open an HTML document, it briefly comes up
> with the browser window, then crashes. You can find OmniWeb here:
> http://files.omnigroup.com/software/Archive/NEXTSTEP/OmniWeb/
>
> I'm not all too familiar with NeXTSTEP, so I'm not sure how I'd go about
> debugging this. But I figured I'd check here first to see if anyone has a
> recommended browser for NeXTSTEP 3.3. I would prefer to keep it at 3.3 and
> not move onto OPENSTEP if possible, just to keep things original.
>
> I also have Nexus, but I can't even seem to get it to open its browser at
> all. Document -> Open does nothing at all. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
>


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