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Flow Browser

@FlowBrowser

The parallel, multithreaded HTML browser.

 Cambridge, England
ekioh.com/flow
Joined August 2017
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Flow now passes 90% of the web-platform-tests. 👋🇪🇺 👋Apple
The website wpt.fyi showing how various browsers score in the web-platform-tests. The columns are: Flow, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Ladybird.

ALT The website wpt.fyi showing how various browsers score in the web-platform-tests. The columns are: Flow, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari and Ladybird.

This shows the total of each browser's score. They are, Flow: 1842155, Chrome: 1992526, Edge: 1983655, Firefox: 1936291, Safari: 1948400, Ladybird: 1790660. The total number of seen tests is from Chrome, which is 2046422. Flow's score is just over 90% of this figure.

ALT This shows the total of each browser's score. They are, Flow: 1842155, Chrome: 1992526, Edge: 1983655, Firefox: 1936291, Safari: 1948400, Ladybird: 1790660. The total number of seen tests is from Chrome, which is 2046422. Flow's score is just over 90% of this figure.

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New in Flow 6.16: 🍏 iCloud: Apple Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Photos now supported. 🖱️ Added dblclick event and click counts. 🎉 Implemented Event.composedPath() and Event.composed. 🎨 Added support for CSS Media Query Level 5 font-relative length units. ⌨️ Fixes to forms.
Flow displaying Apple Pages, showing a Flow brochure.

ALT Flow displaying Apple Pages, showing a Flow brochure.

Flow displaying Apple Numbers, showing a standard template for a new document.

ALT Flow displaying Apple Numbers, showing a standard template for a new document.

Flow displaying Apple Keynote, showing a standard template for a new document.

ALT Flow displaying Apple Keynote, showing a standard template for a new document.

Flow showing Apple Photos, showing a selection of ten random photographs in a photo album.

ALT Flow showing Apple Photos, showing a selection of ten random photographs in a photo album.

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Flow 6.15 on the Pi5 under Wayland is now five times faster than Pi's Chromium, and 14 times faster than Firefox when running MotionMark.
Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5 (under Wayland), scoring 603.74.

ALT Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5 (under Wayland), scoring 603.74.

Flow Browser (@FlowBrowser) profile pictureFlow Browser@FlowBrowser24 Oct 2023
New in Flow 6.14: - Pi 5/bookworm support. - Implemented gap for Flexbox. - Many improvements to conformace of the Selection API. - Cloning bug fixes. - Support for media preload=none. - Several performance improvements.
Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 252.47.

ALT Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 252.47.

Chromium running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 117.34.

ALT Chromium running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 117.34.

Firefox running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 42.64.

ALT Firefox running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 42.64.

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New in Flow 6.15: 🌐 Media Source Extensions (MSE): Adaptive media streaming (64-bit Pi builds). 🎥 YouTube Support: All resolutions available, with h/w decode. 🖌️ Native GTK/Wayland (if available), otherwise Xwayland. 🔄 Resize Observers. 🎨 CSS display: contents.
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Flow running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5's not too shabby, either.
Flow running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 58.0.

ALT Flow running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 58.0.

Chromium running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 52.4.

ALT Chromium running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 52.4.

Firefox running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 51.2.

ALT Firefox running Speedometer on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 51.2.

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New in Flow 6.14: - Pi 5/bookworm support. - Implemented gap for Flexbox. - Many improvements to conformace of the Selection API. - Cloning bug fixes. - Support for media preload=none. - Several performance improvements.
Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 252.47.

ALT Flow running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 252.47.

Chromium running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 117.34.

ALT Chromium running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 117.34.

Firefox running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 42.64.

ALT Firefox running MotionMark on the Raspberry Pi 5, scoring 42.64.

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New in Flow 6.13: @discord now works well. Improvements to SVG text positioning. Fixes for SVG embedded in HTML. Navigator.sendBeacon() now supported. Fixes to contenteditable space handling, if not preserving whitespace.
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New in Flow 6.11: - Support for @CodePen's editor. Most of CodePen itself renders correctly, though Pens vary. - SVG Markers, plus many previously-missing SVG interfaces. - CSS transition support for CSS filters. - Numerous CSS grid fixes.
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Merry Christmas!
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New in Flow 6.5: - Styling is performed in parallel. Elements are styled simultaneously using the available number cores. - HTMLImageElement.decode() is now supported to improve sites with progressive display of images. - Efficiency improvements for layout of empty blocks.
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Here are some more sites that demonstrate Flow's regularly increasing feature set. A montage of more sites is on the Flow page: ekioh.com/flow-browser/#popu…
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Flow is getting closer and closer to matching a desktop browser feature set with each new release. Here are a few examples of how close we are. More can be seen at: ekioh.com/flow-browser/#popu…
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We regularly check the trend predictions from web designers and product design houses to make sure that Flow’s feature roadmap keeps up with the latest developments. Motion UIs are an interesting trend: ekioh.com/blog/design-trends… YouTube Video Link: youtu.be/OyXy20tfGy0

Design Trends - Motion UIs - Ekioh

We continuously monitor design trends to ensure our Flow browser's roadmap keeps up with the latest developments. Motion UIs are an interesting trend to watch.

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A preview of Flow is now available for all Raspberry Pi computers: support.ekioh.com/download/ Read more: ekioh.com/blog/making-flow-a…
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Memory use is very important for embedded systems. Here's Flow on a 512MB RAM Raspberry Pi Zero, compared to Chrome (sped up 20x). Chrome is slower as it needs to swap constantly. Real-time video: youtube.com/watch?v=xN0fVxdP…
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On the fifth day of Christmas, Flow Browser gave to me... a download for the Raspberry Pi 400: support.ekioh.com/download/ Read more: ekioh.com/blog/flow-raspberr…
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