I need a few people to help beta test my new Web Browser, Optum.
Download Link (Beta 2.5, with all bugs fixed.)
Pics:
Easy site navigation. (Full size)
Favoriting the forums! (Full size)
Searching for 08jackt!
Looking at Google's info.
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Last edited by SeptimusHeap (2010-11-26 14:07:50)
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I want to test it. And, I have already found two glitches/problems.
1) The scrolling is a little laggy and choppy.
2) The site editor is very glitchy.
You made Optum based on the FF source/Gecko layout engine, didn't you.
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Another one, not bad. Never mind I've made one myself which had two browser modes IE and Mozilla (Test only and not avaliable) My first one looked like this. (Download from my site what-thess)
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urhungry wrote:
How do you make these browsers? Anyway, just here to confirm that it does not work under wine.
I'm thinking VB. Although I need confirmation. And I am making one as well. Think the best of all major browsers into one.
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fire219 wrote:
I want to test it. And, I have already found two glitches/problems.
1) The scrolling is a little laggy and choppy.
2) The site editor is very glitchy.
You made Optum based on the FF source/Gecko layout engine, didn't you.![]()
The editor is just some javascript, and the scrolling isn't me, it's your computer.
To Do:
'x' buttons by each tab.
EasyAdd search engines (Add any search engine to search bari in 3 steps...)
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SeptimusHeap wrote:
fire219 wrote:
I want to test it. And, I have already found two glitches/problems.
1) The scrolling is a little laggy and choppy.
2) The site editor is very glitchy.
You made Optum based on the FF source/Gecko layout engine, didn't you.![]()
The editor is just some javascript, and the scrolling isn't me, it's your computer.
To Do:
'x' buttons by each tab.
EasyAdd search engines (Add any search engine to search bari in 3 steps...)
With the editor, I thought that probably was the case. For some reason, the scrolling is smooth now.
You didn't answer my question: Did you make Optum with the FF source/Gecko engine?
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Optum was created in Visual Basic.
Future updates:
Optum Pro (After Realease) will include:
Quick e-mail from the Optum Browser
Notepad App
HTML/Java/PHP Editor
Session saving, you can save your tabs and access them later, such as Scratch session with homepage and forum tabs, or World session with e-mail and news.
Much, much more!
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The file is infected with nothing, though norton must be aggressive on unknown files.
Don't worry, I'll get it downloaded bypassing the scan.
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This was created in Visual Basic? Wow...
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In the next version try and add some styling to the tab's.
Also try and use another engine to the Ie one
May I reccomend Geckofx (A port of the gecko engine)
Otherwise cool browser
Go to my web browsers site
: fountain-site.webs.com
OB6160
Last edited by ob6160 (2010-11-25 09:26:27)

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I've just tried your browser Optum. I'm actually kind of surprised that such a powerful browser can be created using Visual Basic.
Here are some of the bugs that I've found:
- All the windows are closed when you choose "Close Window".
- Closing all tabs produces an error.
- You can change the text in the textbox in the "HTML" box.
- You can maximize the "PrivateBrowse" box.
- You can maximize the "Optum Pro" box.
- "pantherbrowsing.weebly.com" is not working.
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Also here is a screenshot of my latest browser (Fountain 7.5(beta)(Coming December 1st -4th)
It will hopefully include an email client and more
Also you really need the ability to load favicons in your browser Here is some code which I hope will help:
Try
Dim URL As Uri = New Uri(TP.Tag.Url.ToString)
Dim favicona As Icon = Nothing
If URL.HostNameType = UriHostNameType.Dns Then
Dim iconURI As String = "http://" & URL.Host & "/favicon.ico"
Try
Dim webclient As New Net.WebClient
Dim MemoryStream As New IO.MemoryStream(webclient.DownloadData(iconURI))
Dim favicon As New Icon(MemoryStream)
favicona = favicon
Catch : End Try
If favicona Is Nothing Then
Dim browser As GeckoWebBrowser = TP.Tag
For Each element As Skybound.Gecko.DOM.GeckoEmbedElement In browser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("link")
Dim cacheUrl As String = element.GetAttribute("rel")
If cacheUrl = "icon" Or cacheUrl = "shortcut icon" Or cacheUrl = "favicon" Or cacheUrl.Contains(".ico") Or cacheUrl = "SHORTCUT ICON" Then
If element.GetAttribute("href").StartsWith("http://") Then
iconURI = element.GetAttribute("href")
Else
iconURI = URL.AbsoluteUri & element.GetAttribute("href")
End If
Dim webclient As New Net.WebClient
Dim MemoryStream As New IO.MemoryStream(webclient.DownloadData(iconURI))
Dim favicon As New Icon(MemoryStream)
TP.Icon = Nothing
TP.Icon = favicon
TP.Icon = favicon
Form1.Icon = favicon
Exit Sub
End If
Next
Else
Dim webclient As New Net.WebClient
Dim MemoryStream As New IO.MemoryStream(webclient.DownloadData(iconURI))
Dim favicon As New Icon(MemoryStream)
TP.Icon = Nothing
Form1.Icon = favicon
TP.Icon = favicon
Exit Sub
End If
End If
Catch
TP.Icon = Nothing
End TryIf you use this code plz put me in credits
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Maximize errors fixed.
Tab closing fixed.
All close bug fixed.
Panther link fixed.
HTML editing fixed.
You can now add your own search engines.
New version here.
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