About

This is a port of the Netsurf Browser to the Plan 9 (9front) operating system.

This is work in progress, help is welcome.

Important

Ensure that your system is up to date (see FQA#5) as patches to the system are sometimes required to help with porting NetSurf.

Getting the sources

All sources can be retrieved using the git9 client.

To retrieve all the sources, you will have to clone the nsport repository and then use the fetch script to clone the remaining repositories:

% git/clone https://github.com/netsurf-plan9/nsport
% cd nsport
% fetch clone http

To update your copy of the sources:

% cd nsport
% fetch pull

Note: if you have a Github account and have registered your public SSH key on Github, you can clone the repositories using the git+ssh protocol (git+ssh://git@github.com/netsurf-plan9/nsport).

Building / Installing

To build Netsurf, go to the directory nsport and run mk:

% cd nsport
% mk
% mk install

Running

First, make sure webfs is running then execute the netsurf binary:

% netsurf

If you did not install NetSurf system-wide (you should), you can run it from within the netsurf directory:

% mk resources/Messages # create Messages file
% prepns            # binds 'resources' directory over /sys/lib/netsurf
% *.netsurf         # runs the binary you compiled (e.g. for your architecture [568])

Credits

The netsurf port is developed and maintained by:

• phil9 (@telephil9).

Contributors

• Ori Bernstein (@oridb)
• Sigrid (@ftrvxmtrx)
• Michael Forney (@michaelforney)

Historical contributors

• Jonas Amoson (@jamoson): initial import of netsurf 3.9 sources with framebuffer frontend
• Kyle Nusbaum (@knusbaum): initial version of webfs fetcher and framebuffer frontend
• Ori Bernstein (@oridb): setup of build infrastructure and many 9front fixes to have netsurf work