Benzilla 3 - Developers - Facepunch Forum

Benzilla 3 is my latest WebBrowser, don't ask me about Benzilla 2 or Benzilla 1, they we're pathetic to use properly. Of course, It's based on Internet Explorer and is made in Visual Basic Express Edition 2008. Some of the main features are: - Built in MP3 player - Click a link and it'll ask you if you want to play - Built in AVI/WMV player - Same as the mp3 player but opens in a different window. - Popup blocker - Simple but effective popupblocker - Built in 'Site Advisor' button, goes to the site's McAfee Site Advisor page. - TinyURL function in Tools menu, automatically tinyURL's the current page you are on. - You can actually press enter to go to URL's in the address bar, no button to click. - Google 'Intitle' search. Easy box to help you find mp3 links from 'index.of' pages. - Fast loading (Tried in Windows 7 and XP) - Page source viewer, Self explanatory - Opens IE homepage - Google Search Button - Search what you want in the URL bar and hit search Known Bugs Minor: - About box says 3.0.0.4 - The 'Would you like to play this mp3' and video box comes up about 2 times. - Clicking address bar refreshes page Major Bugs: None so far Download it from [URL]http://code.google.com/p/benzilla3[/URL] Download the latest one: bzsetup0005 (Benzilla Setup 3.0.0.5) Password for setup is 'thissoftwareisfree' if you didn't notice the huge h1 and Bold text... Screenshots: [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/3206/maininterface.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/8599/googlemp3.jpg[/IMG]

First visual basic program? Sorry, but this will start a flame war. It's better to not post these.

Just want to see what people think.. It's actually quite nice.

May I recommend you try to implement a tab system. I don't tend to even consider a browser unless it has tabs now. Once you've done that switch out the IE engine with something like webkit, I suggest looking for already compiled .NET versions of it and implementing it that way. If you need any help with either I can supply what c# code I have from when I tried this fairly recently (should really do some more with it). [editline]05:13PM[/editline] Also like ddrl46 said is this a fairly early program in you learning VB?

Tested it. It's slow as hell (aka Internet Explorer). It reloads all pages twice and other stuff like that.

Hmmm... Loads very fast for me. The loading all pages twice doesn't do that for me. What OS are you running on? Maybe try getting the latest IE? About the WebKit, I'll look into that.

I'm running vista, and i know about that VB stuff. Everyone his first VB program is a web browser. Just like mine.

Things I've noticed: Clicking the address bar reloads the page, The media player looks awful (I would personally remove it). The TinyURL thing is nice though.

Thankyou for the replies. The media player does look very bad on XP and Vista, but very nice on Windows 7. I'll have to look into clicking the address bar thing.

While it's nothing special, it's fairly nice for a beginners program and you've done a few cool things. Keep on playing around with VB and see what else you can learn. Just ignore the elitist criticism from other members.

You should probably add some pictures for the UI, it seems so plain and ugly. Now, I know we're all programmers here and most really don't care but I know tons of people who use chrome because it's "prettier than Firefox" rather than because WebKit is just infinitely times better than Gecko. Also as a pro tip, since I'm pretty sure you're just embedding Windows Media Player into it, make the switch over to JWPlayer with it. May take a bit of work but it'd definitely add to the appeal. Anyway, you also inspired me to finally get around to making a better C++ browser than the last one I made.

This is fucking hilarious.

[QUOTE=MisterMooth;21029835]This is fucking hilarious.[/QUOTE] Get out, troll

[QUOTE=turb_;21029934]Get out, troll[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, because I'm trolling. Of course.

Until you would rather use your own browser yourself over any other (Firefox, Chrome, etc) then don't bother posting it here really, that could be made in an hour tops without the bugs you got.

Can you make ur own skins for it ? :D I dont like that big ass buttons

Could you please not call this freeware software 'free'? It isn't free software. Why are you using google code when you don't manager your source code with it? Speaking of source code, where is it? I don't enjoy downloading and running small applications with no source code at all to verify you haven't put nasties in it.

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21032437]Could you please not call this freeware software 'free'? It isn't free software.[/quote] He's not making us pay for it, is he?

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21032437]Could you please not call this freeware software 'free'? It isn't free software. Why are you using google code when you don't manager your source code with it?[/QUOTE] The source code does not have to be freely available on the Internet for it to be Open Source.

[QUOTE=zyxxyz;21033208]He's not making us pay for it, is he?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ortzinator;21033209]The source code does not have to be freely available on the Internet for it to be Open Source.[/QUOTE] I meant [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software]free software[/url].

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21033420]I meant [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software]free software[/url].[/QUOTE] The license is clearly GPL.

[QUOTE=Ortzinator;21034098]The license is clearly GPL.[/QUOTE] Where's the source then?

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21034190]Where's the source then?[/QUOTE] If you don't trust him, don't download it. How much simpler could it be? You don't have to go off on a rant because what he's doing doesn't conform to your super-high licensing standards. [B]It's a new programmer's project, why would he give a shit about whether it's GPL, free or open sourcet?[/B]

[QUOTE=CPPNOOB;21032437]Could you please not call this freeware software 'free'? It isn't free software.[/QUOTE] it's free as in beer dickhead

First off, Good job! Suggestions: * Make it Open source... CPPNOOB is correct, At least release the source code so people can see how it works! Then we'll be able to help you more! (Especially if you're new) Now, stop having off topic arguments in his thread! It's about Benzilla 3, not open source licensing, firefox vs. chrome vs. IE vs. ETC. or anything else (Though you should use either WebKit or gecko, not Microsoft's crappy thing.). Unless you're talking directly to BBgamer about his browser, IMHO off topic arguments shouldn't be here. Thanks!

Because there's only way meaning of the word free.

[QUOTE=pjwaffle;21042715] release the source code so people can see how it works! Then we'll be able to help you more! (Especially if you're new)[/QUOTE] I suggest doing this.

He doesn't have to release source code... And to be honest, he shouldn't need to. These things are dime a dozen, so easy to make. It's, as someone else said, a new programmer's project; leave it be.

I made a web browser a while ago and I use it over everything else because it looks cool. :downs:

Can I see it?