Finally I had the time to test the new Minibrowser,works good so far.
One issue I noticed is that on https://discuss.haiku-os.org when you open the categories dropdown and use the mouse scrollwheel with the cursor over the dropdown,it scrolls the whole page instead of the dropdown.
In WebPositive it works correctly,the scrollwheel scrolls the dropdown if the cursor is at the dropdown.
Also,the theme isn’t correctly set to dark,but that’s probably a minor issue in the early development stage.
I had to remove the Minibrowser files as against that I had not linked anything to my home directory, it had caused Webpositive to crash when I switched to Google translate tab.
When I restarted the browser two windows appeared.
One with the
file:/boot/home/config/settings/WebPositive/LoaderPages/Welcome
window, but rendered empty.
Another window came with all tabs which was at crash, but all empty, so restored only in number.
I wanted to use them to reload the previous pages from History. The first has interestingly the Goggle Translate page, but had not loaded, the text was gray and could not overwrite with Haiku home page. Finally I used [CTRL] [ALT] [DEL] as the Window was stubborn to close, not even worked with Deskbar Close all.
When I restarted Web+ than it hanged on Deskbar, no window appeared. Then killed again.
Removed the Minibrowser files, as I saw some Java process stuff in the report, so I took a probe. It had worked. Then Web+ launched as used to be - with all tabs I use.
Google Translate and Mail still had not worked, but at least does not crash the browser at all.
It needed an another restart, but it needed to kill as close was not enough quick for me - it hanged. But now Translate and Mail works as expected.
For me it is too alpha yet, devs …
Thanks for the various useful feedbacks.
I hope I will have a bit of spare time to tackle some of these bugs 
Find me if you need the Web+ Debug log as well. I would upload then to a file sharing service : u f i l e . i o
Is this WebKit1? If so, The Webkit2 thread has an easy-ish fix that will likely render v2 obsolete overnight.
Edit
The existing JIT takes too much RAM. Replace it with LLVM-JIT and save @PulkoMandy some work, please.
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Testing @DigitalBox MiniBrowser with WebKit2+WebKitLegacy build enabled.
My current build:
Haiku-webkit2:
WebKit2: enabled
WebKitLegacy: Enabled
Build tested: Auto to select all remaining unpaired.
Platform: Haiku x86_64 (hrev59789)
Compiler: GCC 13.3.0
So, I think the 32-bit MiniBrowser/WebKit2 preview build requires a decent discussion with WebKit-dev to ensure it builds “correctly” using another compiler (or alternative solution - cross compiler?!?) on Haiku 32-bit (or whatever test platform).
Just thoughts… but let us not take away from this thread’s intent…
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Latest version 0.2 added :
- Stop button is now correctly handled
- Scrollwheel is now taking care of the current mouse position in the view
These fixes are not yet submitted to the repo
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Reminder : MiniBrowser is for developing / bug fix purpose.
The link to the latest version 0.3 has been added in the initial post :
- Fix the loading status
- Add drop files function to MiniBrowser
I hope to have some additional spare time in one month to have a look at some missing features, or some other bugs (I still have some crashes or blocking pages on my system, so it can be considered we are at the beginning)
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