An Advanced, Powerful, Multi-OS, WebKit-Based Browser Featuring Ultra-Low Memory Usage for Beyond-PC Devices

The global browser market offers a number of functional WebKit-based browsers that OEMs can select from for implementation in their Internet devices, but the growing complexity of websites and web-based services as well as new Internet devices is creating ever-greater demands on these browsers. All too often OEMs find that current WebKit-based browser solutions lack stable performance in beyond-PC environments due to inefficient memory usage or limited memory space. Adding to this complexity, WebKit-based browsers are often limited in the OS platforms that they support.

NetFront™ Browser NX was designed from the ground up to address the real-world shortcomings currently found with most WebKit-based browsers. NetFront Browser NX is an advanced, powerful, multi-OS, WebKit-based browser that incorporates unique technologies that achieve extremely efficient memory usage while minimizing the impact of memory shortages, even under exceedingly low memory conditions, ensuring rapid and stable system performance in beyond-PC environments like Internet TVs, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, digital cameras, multi-purpose Internet devices, automobile infotainment systems and more.

NetFront Browser NX leverages ACCESS' broad technology portfolio and outstanding experience and success delivering advanced browser solutions to the mobile and beyond-PC markets. With over one billion NetFront™ series software deployments throughout the world, ACCESS has the global scale, advanced technologies and comprehensive services to help OEMs bring their WebKit-based browser product to market quickly, efficiently and at reduced cost.

 
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NetFront Browser NX is an ideal browser solution for devices ranging from Internet TVs to
set-top boxes to gaming consoles or automobile infotainment systems.

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Advantages | NetFront Browser NX

Ultra-Low Memory and High System Performance Stability

NetFront Browser NX delivers ultra-low memory usage via a unique technology that enables extremely efficient usage of available memory while minimizing the impact of memory shortages, even under exceedingly low memory conditions.

NetFront Browser NX's ultra-low memory usage ensures stable system performance in embedded environments like Internet TVs, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, digital cameras, multi-purpose Internet devices, automobile infotainment systems and more.

As websites and web services become ever more complex, efficient browser memory usage has become a critical component of overall browser functionality. For example, news/media websites require significant browser memory resources for proper rendering and functionality. NetFront Browser NX is able to support these types of websites with less than 25MB of memory.

High Portability with Platform-Agnostic API

In addition to memory usage and stability issues, device OEMs also face difficulties in porting WebKit-based browsers to their platform or platforms. NetFront Browser NX ensures high portability with a platform-agnostic porting API, which makes porting to any platform, including open source platforms, seamless and efficient. ACCESS has extensive experience with platform-agnostic software development and designed NetFront Browser NX from the start as a highly portable browser solution.

NetFront Browser NX Module Diagram

Advanced Web Content Support

NetFront Browser NX is an advanced WebKit-based browser solution that supports the latest web technologies including HTML5 and popular web-based services as well as providing excellent support for cloud services.

Free and Flexible UI Customization

NetFront Browser NX features a special API that supports advanced and flexible UI customization, enabling device OEMs to quickly and easily differentiate their products with unique interfaces that make their products more competitive in their markets while also reducing development costs.

NetFront Browser NX Concept UI

Simple and Intuitive Browsing

NetFront Browser NX was designed to provide simple, intuitive browsing for all users. This simple and intuitive browsing functionality was achieved by leveraging ACCESS' years of experience developing advanced browsers for mobile and beyond-PC OEMs as well as the feedback from users throughout the world.

NetFront Browser NX enables the development of simple, intuitive but powerful user interfaces.
(The UI concept shown above is for demonstration purposes only.)

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Specifications | NetFront Browser NX

[Markup]

• HTML 5, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, XHTML Basic 1.1, XML 1.1, RSS feed (RSS 0.9/0.91/0.92/1.0/2.0, Atom 1.0)

[Style Sheets]

• CSS1, CSS2.1, CSS3

[Advanced Scripting]

• ECMAScript 262 3rd Edition
• DOM Level 1, Level 2, Level 3
• Ajax (XMLHttpRequest)

[Protocols]

• HTTP 1.0/1.1
• IPv4/IPv6

[Security]

• SSL3
• TLS1.0

[Memory Requirements]

• ROM: 12MB (Browser engine only)
• RAM: Less than 25MB (Depending on web content)

[Main Features]

• Tabbed Multi-Window support
• Smart Frame (Frame Flattening)
• Continuously adjustable Zooming/Animated Zoom
• Page/Image Saving
• Word Wrap, Line boundary character check
• International Domain Name

[Supported Operating Systems]

• Linux® (Android™, Qt/Embedded, Qtopia, GTK+, and others)
• UNIX
• Microsoft® Windows® CE family, Microsoft® Windows Mobile® (Pocket PC, Smartphone)
• Others

[Supported CPU]

• ARM®
• XScale
• StrongARM®
• Others

[Plug-In and Extension Modules]

Adobe Flash Player 10 (In planning)