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A lightweight web browser for classic Amigas, in the style of Firefox.
Its main rule: one web page must never eat all of your RAM.
THIS IS A BETA VERSION - it is improved and updated all the time.
AmiFire checks for new versions at start (can be turned off) and
updates itself with one click.
FEATURES
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* Tabs (also private tabs), address bar with search, back/forward,
bookmarks, history, STOP button, address suggestions from history
* Start page like a new tab in Firefox: tiles of your favourite sites
with their icons (add, move, remove), DuckDuckGo Lite search
* HTTP/1.1 with keep-alive and gzip, HTTPS through AmiSSL, cookies,
disk cache for images and styles
* HTML and CSS: cascade, selectors, floats, positioning (absolute,
relative, fixed), flexbox, basic grid, tables, @media, variables,
pseudo-elements; passes the Acid2 test
* Forms: text fields, buttons, checkboxes, drop-down lists, logins
* Built-in image decoders: PNG (also interlaced), WebP (lossy and
lossless), GIF (optionally animated), SVG, ICO; JPEG and others
through datatypes
* Site icons (favicons) on tabs and tiles
* Every tab has its own memory limit; background tabs are put to sleep
when RAM runs low
* Downloads panel, right-click menus, page source view, drop-down and
"hamburger" menus of modern web sites
* Add-ons, each with its own settings (gear icon): JavaScript (AmigaJS engine,
optional), search engines without JavaScript, ad blocker, password
manager (encrypted vault)
* Firefox themes: built-in gallery (about:themes) with one-click install
from addons.mozilla.org, or .xpi files dropped into Themes/ - colours
and header pictures, also on 16/32-colour screens
* Workbench or own screen (any mode, RTG 16/24 bit or AGA), interface
font of your choice
* Safe mode and a start log for bug reports
* Three interface languages: English, Polish and German
* Runs on a 68020, and much faster on 060, PiStorm and emulators
REQUIREMENTS
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* 68020 or better, AmigaOS 3.1 or newer
* TCP/IP stack: Roadshow, AmiTCP or Miami
* AmiSSL 5 for https:// pages (almost all of the web today)
* 8 MB Fast RAM or more recommended
* Images: PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG and ICO are built in; JPEG needs a JPEG
datatype (OS 3.2/3.9 or Aminet).
INSTALLATION
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Copy the AmiFire drawer anywhere on your hard disk and double-click the
AmiFire icon. On the first start choose your language on the start
page (English is the default).
From the Shell:
AmiFire start page
AmiFire aminet.net open an address straight away
AmiFire LATIN2 Polish characters with ISO-8859-2 fonts
AmiFire NOCSS NOIMG no styles and images (least memory)
AmiFire SCREENMODE choose a screen mode for AmiFire's own screen
AmiFire SAFEMODE safe mode: Workbench screen, built-in theme,
no site icons, no JavaScript
AmiFire DEBUG write PROGDIR:AmiFire.log (for bug reports)
SAFEMODE, DEBUG and SCREENMODE also work as tool types of the AmiFire
icon. If AmiFire did not finish last time (crash, reset), the next start
is in safe mode automatically; the start after that is normal again.
KEYS
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Ctrl/Amiga + T ........ new tab
Ctrl/Amiga + W ........ close tab
Ctrl + Tab ............ next tab
Ctrl/Amiga + L, F6 .... address bar (address or search words)
Ctrl/Amiga + R, F5 .... reload
Ctrl/Amiga + D ........ bookmark this page
Ctrl/Amiga + H ........ history
Backspace, Alt + Left . back Alt + Right ... forward
Space, cursor keys .... scroll
Page Up / Page Down ... one page (or Shift + cursor)
Home / End ............ top / bottom (or Ctrl + cursor)
Shift + click ......... open link in a new tab
Right mouse button .... menu for page, link, image, tab, address bar
Esc ................... stop loading
Help .................. help page
ADD-ONS
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Click the puzzle icon next to the menu to switch add-ons on or off.
* JavaScript ............ page scripts (uses RAM and CPU, off by default)
* Search without JS ..... basic Google / DuckDuckGo Lite
* Ad blocker ............ less memory and faster pages
* Password manager ...... remembers logins and fills them in; the vault
is encrypted with your master password.
THE MASTER PASSWORD CANNOT BE RECOVERED!
FILES
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PROGDIR:Downloads/ downloaded files
PROGDIR:Cache/ image and style cache
PROGDIR:Bookmarks.txt bookmarks
PROGDIR:History.txt history (can be turned off in Settings)
PROGDIR:Cookies.txt cookies (logins on web sites)
PROGDIR:Passwords.vault password vault (encrypted)
PROGDIR:Languages/de.txt German interface
PROGDIR:Tiles.txt, Icons/ start page tiles and their icons
PROGDIR:Themes/ installed Firefox themes (*.theme)
PROGDIR:Plugins/AmigaJS JavaScript engine (add-on)
ENVARC:AmiFire.prefs settings
PROBLEMS?
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Turn on "Diagnostic log" in Settings (menu > Settings), repeat the
problem and send the author:
* a screenshot
* PROGDIR:AmiFire.log (log)
* PROGDIR:AmiFire-start.log (start log - after a crash)
* PROGDIR:AmiFire.last.html (source of the last page)
AUTHOR
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Rafal "Terror" Fajfrowski <solargrim@gmail.com>
Updates: http://eterror.pl/amifire/
AmiFire is an independent project and is not affiliated with Mozilla.
"Firefox" is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.
The AmigaJS engine is based on QuickJS by Fabrice Bellard and Charlie
Gordon (MIT license, see Plugins/AmigaJS.LICENSE).
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