Bug Report System

Welcome to the NetSurf bug reporting system.

Reporting bugs

The NetSurf developers are very much open to bug reports. Please observe the following:

• Provide as much information about the problem as you can.
• If we can't reproduce your problem, we'll find it difficult to help.
  • What do you have to do to make the problem happen?
  • What exactly is the nature of the problem?
• Good quality bug reports have a better chance of being attended to swiftly.
• NetSurf's developers develop this software in their spare time, so may not always be able to respond rapidly.
• Providing a log file can often help in tacking down bugs.

Following the above guidelines will save the developers' time and speed up NetSurf's development.

Creating a Log file

The way to generate log files depends on the platform:

RISC OS

Open !NetSurf.!Run, ensure NetSurf$Logging is set to 1, to enable logging. Run NetSurf and reproduce your bug. Quit NetSurf and run !NetSurf.OpenScrap, the Log file will be in the directory that opens.

Linux

Run NetSurf from the command line, passing -v as an argument. Now reproduce the bug.

I'm ready to start reporting bugs!

Excellent! Please proceed to the bug reporting interface.