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Netsurf 3.9 x86_64 anomolies

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PDP-8:
No problem.  I'm not smart, I'm just exposing my ignorance in public. :)

Nick motivated me to look at Netsurf on the framebuffer, and holy cow.

So running a modern cheap uefi-only hockey-puck with a low-spec N3350 Celeron rig with 6gb ram standard on board, I created the canonical fltk/flwm boot environment with Xfbdev as the driver for x86_64.  I'm addicted to these little fanless things.

Fired up Netsurf and just from a usability standpoint compared to Dillo - no question about it.  Of course this thing flies with TC in ram and Xfbdev as the video driver.  Some of the pucks have crappy framebuffer support, but seems like most that have Intel do the nicest.

So Xfbdev on the 64-bit rig compared to using Xorg isn't to everyone's taste.  And using Netsurf isn't everyone's taste.  At least the rig has seemingly good support for the framebuffer - while being very new in manufacture, is using older-tech internally- albeit with a uefi-only front end, which is not insurmountable and actually does provide a performance boost.

I hate to admit it, but it just confirms my decision to move a little bit forward from Dillo to NetSurf as my standard lightweight now.

PDP-8:
BTW -handy tip if using Netsurf in Xfb framebuffer mode on X86_64 to see this  forum:

Disable background and foreground images in your preferences (no images).  Something odd about them that makes 3.9 at least very cranky but the forum is still very usable and navigable otherwise.

A nifty developer blog just to prove that these are just a handful of smart guys like all of us can be seen here:

https://vincentsanders.blogspot.com/2019/

Puts a human touch on things.  Nice.

curaga:
Framebuffer mode means command line. Do not run a framebuffer app under X.

PDP-8:
Roger that.  I needed that refresher.

It's right in the first character of the name Xfbdev.  So it's not full xorg, but the "tiny-X" - still X.  Or use Xvesa or Xorg.  Whatever you use, if you using any of these three, it is still X.

I apologize to lurkers for cross-pollinating terms which could lead to a lot of confusion to those using solely the framebuffer version, invoking the framebuffer version of Netsurf from a command-line only environment.

So this version of Netsurf 3.9, still barfs on png graphics in the fore/backgrounds of the forum for whatever reason.  Run with no-images and it still works great.

Ironically, png's, such as taking a screen-snapshot locally, can be seen easily if one points the url inwards (file:///) and navigates to that png file.

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