Voyager v2.95

Now, aside from the constant crashing which occurs for me when using Voyager, this is a fast, useful and brilliant program. First, however, the crashes. Voyager's image decoding process constantly keeps crashing when decoding an image. Now, it only seems to happen with some images, since I can view many graphical pages without this. Some select images will crash it consistently.

Voyager screen shot

It's times like this that I wish the Amiga had the ability to end a certain task/process. Anyway, Voyager is what seems to be the most competent of the browsers in terms of HTML. Image decoding is fast, as is HTML processing.

However, tables are not Voyager's strong point. For a start, it doesn't display background images in tables. It also tends to take millenia to display a table. And when it does finally get around to it, it's not always right.

Voyager's preferences are about to be tested by me, except the image decoding process has just crashed, so I'll have to reboot. Back in a mo...

Right, I'm back. Just browsing through the Voyager prefs and while I didn't think it was possible to improve on the IBrowse prefs, it seems to have been done. Voyager's prefs are nicely laid out, and have easier to understand instructions.

And Voyager brings a nice useful piece of software to your Amiga, the systemwide MIME prefs editor which can be used by any application (as long as it supports it). Much better than IBrowse's attempt, although their front ends look pretty similar.

Supplier/Distributor: Vaporware / Active Technologies

Verdict: Excellent! Just a bit unstable, and tables need better support
Score: 91%
by Frank Mathieson
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