ArsTechnica Review of R1/Beta2

I tested this a bit more today. Had youtube running on autoplay for about an hour with no issue. Then I started playing another youtube video at the same time using QMP2. About 10 minutes later, crashed with the white screen.

Then I got to remembering when things crashed. Was always when I played youtube while downloading or streaming something else. So far it’s either been another video or substantial updated via haiku depot.

Could be a coincidence but after that, I played youtube on autoplay while not doing much else. Was still going strong after 3 hours, then web+ crashed but in the nice way that gives you the option to close, take a dump, etc. I was able to close and am now playing youtube videos again. I’ll see how it goes this time.

This is acceptable enough for me to use as my main non-work daily driver.

I forgot, Web+ was updated on this system before all of this. Currently on

Web+ 1.2 Alpha
HaikuWebkit 1.7.0
WebKit 610.1.9
Haiku R1/Beata2(Revision hrec54154+116) x86_gcc2

Final Update this week: I was able to restart web+ after the soft crash and play youtube videos and nothing else for 36 minutes before it crashed again. This time with the white screen that needed a reboot.