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I tried this out b/c I ran out of space on my regular n810 memory & wanted an easy way to install more apps on my memory card & was interested in trying the full Firefox/Iceweasel & OpenOffice. Installation was amazingly smooth -- only tiny hiccup was that the "Debian Image Installer" item showed up under Games in the Application Launcher and not Extras. But it was "Easy" as advertised -- my thanks & kudos.

One surprise: Google Spreadsheets in Iceweasel is actually more responsive & more usable for me than in microB! Page load times seem comparable (although obviously Iceweasel's start-up is slower). But Google Spreadsheets under microB is frustrating for me b/c it keeps redrawing the page due to the Nokia auto-complete window that appears & disappears under the browser when you type. Also, when I type information into a spreadsheet cell with microB, the resulting edit box has scrollbars appear that completely cover up what I'm typing! Not so in Iceweasel. One the minus side, right-click menus popped up unexpectedly (I'll poke around more to see if there's a fix for this) & I frequently had to undo options I accidentally selected due to the lag between my selection & the program's response. There were other little things, of course -- those were the biggees for me.

Maybe I should submit the redrawing thing as a microB bug? Or both?