Re: IBrowse 2.4 Prefs

On 12-Apr-07, Oliver Roberts wrote:

>> Anything I might be missing or any problems with 2.3 -> 2.4 prefs?

> ...FAB menus - the default config gained some new options...

> ...but of course it's easy enough to update these manually if you
> wish.

Thanks. I'll have a good look around the defaults and prefs to see what
goodies are missing.

> The only other thing that springs to mind is the Security Cipher
> settings...

> These settings provide better speed and security on 68k systems, and
> these recommendations were made here a while ago, before 2.4 was
> released, anyway.

OK, looks like I already had that - only DH is disabled.

> ...DH key exchange [...] - it really is supper slow on even the
> fastest 68k, unfortunately.

Would this include emulation? I'm running Amithlon, but only on a 933
MHz machine.

Thanks for your feedback. Lookin' good!

Now that chorus of praise has died down, I ought to finally add my own
voice to say 'Thanks' for all the hard work getting 2.4 out the door. I
will say this - I've finally been using Firefox a fair bit (on a Mac
Mini) and after all the hoopla I'm pretty unimpressed. I guess it's
partly what you're used to, but the application itself just feels
awkward compared to IBrowse. Some of that may just be the Mac's GUI
system. Anyway I still use IBrowse primarily, and simply save URLs to a
shared folder when I want to change seats and browse with the Mac - for
Flash content, typically.

I had to change a bunch of things in IBrowse 2.4 right away, but thanks
for making everything so configurable. I wasn't crazy about the new
graphic status icons or the context mouse pointer. But that's partly my
point above - it took about three minutes for me to stumble on those
items in prefs. On other browsers, I think I would just have to get used
to it. (Of course, the new features are very nice, but it's great to
have a choice!!) The new image placeholder was an interesting issue for
me. I've long felt something better than the old 'tree' image would be
worthwhile, but was too lazy to investigate. Since I still typically
browse with images off, I found the switch to 2.4 rather disconcerting -
all those 'eyes' staring at me from every page!! I was happy to see how
easy it was to edit the 'Picture' file to my liking, and surprised to
see that reducing it 50% didn't affect the way the strip gets used by
the program. Magic!

Thanks again!

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Hi Richard,

On 13-Apr-07 14:32:21, Richard Mattsson wrote:

> OK, looks like I already had that - only DH is disabled.

Of course, it was a bit of a waste of time me mentioning that part, as
I did in fact add some code which automatically enables 3DES and disables
DH after loading a 2.3 prefs file

>> ...DH key exchange [...] - it really is supper slow on even the
>> fastest 68k, unfortunately.
>
> Would this include emulation? I'm running Amithlon, but only on a 933
> MHz machine.

Probably. I guess the only real answer is to try enabling it and see
how it goes. There is a significent slowdown in the 68k code when using
DH key exchange, compared to RSA. I isolated the reason in the OpenSSL
code, and that mainly that most targets have assembly optimized parts for
that code, but the 68k version does not.

> Thanks for your feedback. Lookin' good!
>
> Now that chorus of praise has died down, I ought to finally add my own
> voice to say 'Thanks' for all the hard work getting 2.4 out the door. I

I hope the lack of emails equates to lack of bugs Particularly in
terms of stability, I hope we reached our goal with 2.4 making it by far
the most stable version of IBrowse ever (ignoring OS4 68k emulation
issues).

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