Re: Molasses version 0.7.5 released

[cat Kalmar <cat@b4udw3rk5.com>]

it's an M2 - I gave it a proper shot last night but didn't have a chance 
to reply again. it looks like turning the smooth scrolling off doesn't 
work (at least on the macOS builds) and that's what I was understanding 
as sluggish. aside from that it works great.

I can drop a proper bug/feature request in the git repo if you like?

regards

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On 27/11/2025 12:50 AM, Jonathan Simpson wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> How old is your macbook? The HTML rendering can be a little sluggish 
> in certain situations.
> If there is a particular site/page that is slow let me know and I'll 
> see if I can improve it. For
> the most part it is pretty snappy on my amd linux desktop. However, I 
> haven't tested as
> much on macos because I only have limited access to macos machines.
>
> The slowest machine I have tested on is a g4 mac mini, and it is quite 
> sluggish on it(this used
> a ppc build I have not distributed). For really slow machines I 
> recommend disabling smooth
> scrolling in the Options menu.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. I appreciate it!
>
> -- Jonathan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 12:25 AM cat Kalmar <cat@b4udw3rk5.com> wrote:
>
>     holy smokes! love your work. it runs kinda sluggish on my Macbook but
>     that might be settings and I'll play with it more this evening.
>     incredible job.
>
>
>     regards.
>
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>     On 26/11/2025 3:08 PM, Jonathan Simpson wrote:
>     > Molasses is a multi-platform graphical gopher client.
>     >
>     > Updates in this release:
>     > - HTTP protocol support (not useful for the modern web, since
>     Molasses
>     >    lacks support for CSS, Javascript, and HTML > version 3.2) *
>     > - Option to increase font size
>     > - Optional "light mode" color scheme
>     > - Add menu shortcuts
>     > - Display selected gopher menu item's selector, host, and port
>     in status bar
>     > - Strip ANSI escape codes from gopher menu information("i" item
>     type) lines **
>     > - Various bug fixes, especially regarding HTML rendering
>     >
>     > Download here:
>     > https://github.com/jjsimpso/molasses/releases/tag/v0.7.5
>     >
>     > Pre-built binaries for Linux, Macos(apple silicon and x86), and
>     Windows.
>     >
>     > * added primarily so I could browse http://discmaster.textfiles.com
>     > with Molasses!
>     > ** added specifically to improve display of gopher://baud.baby
>     >