Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

Greetings:


With my N800 and OS2008 firmware I tried to open a page on Maemo Garage with the list of all the programs.

The OS2008 will not open this page.

Anyone else have the same difficulty.

Regards Robert

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

You're going to have to be far more descriptive than that. What does that mean exactly?

Works fine for me here.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

Just paste the URL into your next message and I'll give it a try.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

Greetings Technut:

Here is the URL: https://garage.maemo.org/

I hope it works for you.

Regards Robert

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

It did. Which means I can't reproduce your problem to work on it.

When you installed OS2008, did you restore anything from a backup file? That's known to cause browser issues.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

Greetings Technut:

Bingo you hit the nail on the head.

I did do a restore from a backup file.

Oh well I'll wait for the official 2008OS release in Mid December.

This time I won't backup files.

Thanks again

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

I restored from a backup as well and everything works fine for me.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

Ditto. I don't think restoration from backup is the problem.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

The problem as discussed in the bug report, it's because the configuration file ~ /.browser
You may have the option engine=opera if you used opera in your OS2007, but if you used microb in OS2007 this will be engine=microb and there isn't problem.

It's also my case, I haven't problems with the browser after restore from backup, but I used microb in OS2007.

Although I may be wrong.

Re: Maemo Garage and OS2008
 

I have the same problem on my n800/IT2008beta, and it is repeatable for several sites, not only maemo.org/downloads.

Would you be so kind to explain to a Linux noob how to modify the .browser file in the system so that all instances of engine=opera are translated into engine=microb?

And btw - what's the .browser file for?