IBrowse is a
MUI-based
web browser
A web browser is application software for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on ...
for the
Amiga range of computers, and was a rewritten follow-on to
Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer. IBrowse was originally developed for a company called
Omnipresence, now defunct. The original author has since continued development of IBrowse.
IBrowse supports some
HTML
The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...
4,
JavaScript
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, frames,
SSL SSL may refer to:
Entertainment
* RoboCup Small Size League, robotics football competition
* ''Sesame Street Live'', a touring version of the children's television show
* StarCraft II StarLeague, a Korean league in the video game
Natural language ...
, and various other standards. It was one of the first browsers to include
tabbed browsing as early as 1999 with IBrowse². However, it does not support CSS.
A limited OEM version of IBrowse 2.4 is included with
AmigaOS 4.
Between April 2007 and August 2019, IBrowse was not available for sale to new customers since its distributor had quit the Amiga market,
although existing v2.x users could download and install the demo version over their existing installation in order to access all functionality. Starting with IBrowse 2.5, new purchases can be made directly from the developer's website.
System requirements
* Kickstart 3.0
* Motorola 68020 or higher
* 5 MB free memory (7 MB with AmiSSL v5)
*
MUI 3.8
See also
*
AMosaic
AMosaic was a port to the Amiga of the Mosaic web browser, developed beginning in 1993, and was the first graphical web browser for the Amiga. AMosaic was based on NCSA's Mosaic, but was not distributed by the University of Illinois or NCSA. It ...
*
AWeb
AWeb is a web browser for the Amiga range of computers. Originally developed by Yvon Rozijn, AWeb was shipped with version 3.9 of AmigaOS, and is now open source.
AWeb supports HTML 3.2, and some 4.01, JavaScript, frames, SSL, and various othe ...
*
NetSurf
*
Voyager
Voyager may refer to:
Computing and communications
* LG Voyager, a mobile phone model manufactured by LG Electronics
* NCR Voyager, a computer platform produced by NCR Corporation
* Voyager (computer worm), a computer worm affecting Oracle ...
*
OWB
*
TimberWolf
References
Further reading
* Fischer, Michael., Meyer, Michael., and
Witbrock, Michael. "User Extensibility in Amiga Mosaic", Proceedings of the Second International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference '94:
Mosaic and the Web, October 1994
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