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This respo is Public for demonstration purposes only. Much of the code here is very old, works but is old, and is not feasible.

I did this project as a skill show-off while learning VB.NET and general programming from 2015 until an attempted remake in 2019. The code here demonstrates my knowledge of concept - and how much I have grown since.

Announcments

Krypto Browser

Introducing Krypto, a new version of BeffsBrowser, coming very soon! https://github.com/jdc20181/Krypto

Notice:

Development is suspended for approximately 5-12 weeks, as the visual studio file became corrupt and requires a rebuild. 2.4.3.1 has been post poned until further notice.

StartPage is discontinued

StartPage is being removed. It will be relaunched soon, and locally stored.

Changes to Compatible OS is coming soon

Read some of the changes: wiki

About

A Simple but powerful Browser using the Gecko Webbrowser engine!

License

Licensed under The MIT License!

System Requirements!

See System Requirements

Archive Policy

A new Archive Policy has been published in the wiki, you can read it here

Simply Said Summary

The new policy will reflect on effeciency in the open source community, providing a constructive policy pointing out what happens when you don't update. Support for older versions are removed every so often (everything is said in the wiki) - making outdated versions discontinued.

In short, you should keep your application up to date with the latest version to avoid missing bug fixes and resolving issues which you may post about well after they are resolved with the next release.

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beffsbrowser's Issues

Win10 IoT

I'm very interested in attempting to adapt this code for Win10 IoT (running on the Raspberry Pi 3). I hope to be able to use it to authenticate to a website and download an authorized file to a user-specified folder.

Can you foresee any issues, trouble spots?

Double Entries in History [Bug-Resolved/Details]

A bug - occuring when the entry of history is entered was writing it twice instead of one time.

The issue is Resolved, but will still happen, and expected to happen as that is how it is suppose to work on a select few websites e..g Youtube, Facebook. These sites update often making the browser page to seemingly "Reload" making the event fire again.

There is really no way around that from occuring, so I will not be resolving the matter any further than it has been solved.

Some Features Unusable (Read for details)

Some features will not work appropriate due to the file exception error- Hopefully if the fix of the file exception bug that is pending I will fix this by Version 1.6.2 - 1.6.3

I appologize for the inconvience.

Browser Restore Bugs

There is some issues with browser restore currently being resolved, one being an exception in the .net framework caused by being stuck in a loop, through a data file, the other is the disappearence of the data file that holds the websites being restored, when there is none, on intial installs, it can get stuck opening hundreds of tabs, causing issues.

Some of the first fixes will be in the release coming out later today, but the rest of the fixes will be released in the future, possibly in the patch release.

Multiple Monitor issues

Some users report problems when using multiple monitors, ultimately, the goal here with this issue is to stablize multiple monitor scenerios.

Security -

This is also viewed as a security issue. Will be resolved in 2.3.1, hopefully.

[BUG] .Net Framework Exceptions within BeffsBrowser

A known issue with some features within BeffsBrowser is a rare .NET Framework Exception, generally this occurs if the file does not exist, or you navigate with an empty URL box, it will give an error when loading History, or when you open a unsupported file in EasyNotes.

Bug with Document Changelog

I fixed the issue, and don't see why it is still occuring but its always been a issue with this feature, so I am debating on removing it

[Bug] Flash Support

Not really in a hurry to fix this, however, it is still supported in major browsers, so I will take a look.

Flash is appearing not to be working and or not included. So I am going to find out more information, maybe it is that I don't have it installed on my computer, not sure. Will post more details soon.

Install Error

After downloading the zip file and extracting all the folders it always gives me this error when I try to run the setup,

Application download did not succeed.
Check your network connection or contact your system provider.

[Full error removed. Issue is pending resolved.]

Bug : The .exe alone will not install the application.

This reason is unknown and will not be fixed in the shorterm future.

If you have this issue, please use the zip. This will only apply to versions 1.5.0 to 1.5.2

I am publishing 1.5.3 as a patch to fix a few things I didn't do before the 1.5.2 release, and will attempt to also squish this bug also.

If it fails however I will not post the .exe only anymore and you will have to extract the zip and locate the .exe as its always been done.

Bug- Exceptions in the Casino Game

Known issue

I will fix it in the next release its due to a character limitation. I will move it to a label, hopefully that will fix it.

I will update this as needed.

[Bug] Webpage Titles not showing on Tabs

Currently using the following to complete the task:

Tabcontrol1.SelectedTab.Text = CType(Tabcontrol1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0), GeckoWebBrowser).DocumentTitle

BeffsBrowser 2.0 doesn't work properly on the Windows 10 Creators Update.

I've tried restarting BeffsBrowser via menu>Operations>RestartBeffsBrowser. I would test the latest commit but I don't know how to build it. I've also tried new copies downloaded straight from the Releases page.

I've downloaded the latest stable version and tried running it in a VirtualBox VM (Windows 10 Pro build 15063.413 64-bit) without installing it first by running "BeffsBrowser.exe" and clicking on the "BeffsBrowser" button in the resulting menu. As soon as the main browser window appeared, the .Net Framework complained about an unhandled exception as seen below.

BeffsBrowser not installed:
issue1-cannot-find-xul

Text from the Details box before install:

Before installing BeffsBrowser:

See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'xul': The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.NS_InitXPCOM2(nsIServiceManager& serviceManager, Object binDirectory, nsIDirectoryServiceProvider appFileLocationProvider)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize(String binDirectory)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize()
   at Gecko.GeckoWebBrowser.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at Gecko.GeckoWebBrowser.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BeffsBrowser
    Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 0.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser.exe
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
    Assembly Version: 10.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 14.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Core
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
Geckofx-Winforms
    Assembly Version: 45.0.6.0
    Win32 Version: 45.0.6.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/Geckofx-Winforms.DLL
----------------------------------------
Geckofx-Core
    Assembly Version: 45.0.6.0
    Win32 Version: 45.0.6.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/Geckofx-Core.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

However, if I install it first by running the "BeffsBrowser.msi" file then run the EXE from earlier (or from the "BeffsBrowser" Program Files (x86) folder), I get an error about a program being in an incorrect format as seen below.

BeffsBrowser installed:
issue2-incorrect-program-format

Text from the Details box after install:

After installing BeffsBrowser:

See the end of this message for details on invoking 
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.BadImageFormatException: An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007000B)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.NS_InitXPCOM2(nsIServiceManager& serviceManager, Object binDirectory, nsIDirectoryServiceProvider appFileLocationProvider)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize(String binDirectory)
   at Gecko.Xpcom.Initialize()
   at Gecko.GeckoWebBrowser.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at Gecko.GeckoWebBrowser.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v4.0.30319/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
BeffsBrowser
    Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 0.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser.exe
----------------------------------------
Microsoft.VisualBasic
    Assembly Version: 10.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 14.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/Microsoft.VisualBasic/v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Core
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Core/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Core.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Windows.Forms/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Windows.Forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Drawing/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Configuration
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Configuration/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/System.Configuration.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Xml
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Xml/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Xml.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Runtime.Remoting
    Assembly Version: 4.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 4.7.2046.0 built by: NET47REL1
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Windows/Microsoft.Net/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Runtime.Remoting/v4.0_4.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089/System.Runtime.Remoting.dll
----------------------------------------
Geckofx-Winforms
    Assembly Version: 45.0.6.0
    Win32 Version: 45.0.6.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/Geckofx-Winforms.DLL
----------------------------------------
Geckofx-Core
    Assembly Version: 45.0.6.0
    Win32 Version: 45.0.6.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Users/Drew/Desktop/VBOXSVRBeffsBrowserVersion2.0/program%20files/BeffsBrowser/BeffsBrowser/Geckofx-Core.DLL
----------------------------------------

************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.

For example:

<configuration>
    <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.

Here's what it looks like after clicking Continue in those error messages:

issue3-no-browser-control

The progress bar is in a permanently indeterminate state when this problem occurs as well.

I figured that maybe installing Firefox would help in case there was a file that was used from the Firefox folder if it was installed, but that didn't help. I've also tried a reboot and that didn't help either.

This issue also seems to affect "Tappy Bird" in the "Arcade" window, as well as navigating to favorites via the "Favorites" button on the main window. Opening another tab via the new tab button on the toolbar also presents this issue. So far I haven't found any other places where this problem occurs.

The main reason I wanted to try out BeffsBrowser is to see how smooth GeckoFX worked and if it crashed with >80 tabs.

What's really strange is there's an "xul.dll" file in the same folder as "BeffsBrowser.exe" even though .Net says it can't find it.

Once BeffsBrowser is uninstalled, the first error shows up when trying to run it. If I reinstall it, the second error shows up.

If more info is required, I'll provide it.

[Bug]Navigation Bugs 2.4.X

There is a known issue with the latest release, it has since been marked as a pre-release, some sites seem to not be working, or navigating to. It is very possible it has to do with the newer updates of Windows 10, where similarly, Google Chrome broke.

This issue seems to be impacting HTTPS sites, this is being looked into, however, Due to a file corruption issue, there will be no further updates at this time, and this issue will go unresolved until Krypto is released in the summer.

Update Bug

This bug is ultimately annoying - you have to uninstall the previous version manually before you can do anything. A fix is in progress.

Bug - Navigation issues [Resolved]

This is another pesky bug that will also be fixed in Version 1.6.1

The cause was because of the navigation drop down - for whatever reason the button didn't work appropriately as a drop down. So it has been changed as per the change log. Refer to the change log for details.

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