Hey there,
A new version of haikuwebkit has been released.
It will become available after the version has been added to haikuports.
Thanks to @pulkomandy and @DigitalBox!
Digitalbox has contributed severall improvements to the webkit2 port lately, and as a result keyboard handeling now works better and MiniBrowser is less prone to crash.
A small changelog (for this version only, not towards 1.9.11)
Changes:
-Major bug fixed regarding the window not redrawing after pasting something
-Updated to webkit 625.1.14
Changes for webkit 2:
-fixed a minibrowser crash
-minibrowser now accepts a URL as commandline argument to open a page
-various code cleanups
-fixed flickering in rendering
-the keyboard handeling (and shortcut handeling for the keyboard) has been improved
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I’m currently looking at the Context popup menu which is working fine on my machine but I’m polishing it a little bit before submitting.
I have the Debian MiniBrowser as a reference when I need to check for a specific behavior 
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Ahoy @DigitalBox ,
I awaited for this Haikuwebkit based MiniBrowser to have installed.
I would like to setup for applications’s help pages and tools’ manual pager - instead of
default Webpositive. I know that, it will be more capable, however very annoying for me when
I install a program and it launches the welcome screen or manual/help pages in Webpositive (before I opened it) and smash my Haiku pages opened in it. Fortunately lately rather opens a separate window, and pages remain if Web+ is already up and running.
Earlier I had to re-open pages in the browser, and as actually Webpositive still does not support tab move, I had to reopen sites in the same specific order to have the same setup - in their order - as for I accommodated to.
Damn, you are smashing my tickets. Should I add some more tickets? 
Honestly, at this point the core functionality is down mostly, if that threaded compositor crash was down we can then start on a minimal demo to hook up webpositive; Although there we face the problem of cookiestores and history etc. I think that may be a bit more effeort though
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Would this MiniBrowser hit the repo alongside with Haikuwebkit 1.9.27 ?
No, the webkit 1.9.x releases are done from the legagy webkit branch. And also the releases don’t include testing tools like MiniBrowser (or its webkit1 counterpart, HaikuLauncher)
I still have some other kind of crashes (in addition to your tickets) where I need to find the root cause, but I’m pretty happy about the current status of MiniBrowser as it’s useable on some websites.
When I have some additional spare time (which is not easy for the moment) I will check on the remaining crashes.
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Resizing is now OK with MiniBrowser, it should allow to identify and play with other crashes:)
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Regarding the compositor crash, my current investigation is that it seems AcceleratedSurfacePlayStation.cpp used by the Haiku version do not have a software fallback rendering (hence the crash), maybe the solution is to use AcceleratedSurface.cpp instead (if it handles well the fallback). I will try to check that soon
