For Fremantle users, binary packages of Browser Switchboard 3.1-2fremantle3 are now available on Garage and in Fremantle extras-devel.

Again, the "only" change in this release is a change in the way we detect the last MicroB window being closed; this should now work regardless of whether the Conversations application is (pre)started or not. Many thanks to jukey for providing the detailed feedback that produced this change.

Hopefully the following should now work 100% of the time:

1. Configure Browser Switchboard with any default browser other than MicroB.
2. Restart the device.
3. Open a link from an application or a desktop widget; the link should open in the default browser you configured.
4. Open MicroB by using the Web menu entry (you don't need to change the default browser setting or restart the device).
5. Open a link from an application or a desktop widget; the link should open in MicroB.
6. Close all the MicroB browser windows.
7. Open a link from an application or a desktop widget; the link should open in the default browser you configured.
8. Open MicroB by using the Web menu entry (it should come up).

Please let me know whether this works consistently now or not, and whether or not you notice any other inconsistent or strange behaviors. If anything doesn't work as expected along the way, please let me know; if you can, open an xterm, run "killall browser-switchboard; browser-switchboard", go through the sequence of steps, and then provide the output that browser-switchboard produces in the terminal when reporting your problem.

Also, please report any problems you have with MicroB losing bookmarks, history, or settings when it's closed; a change to more heavy-handed measures for killing MicroB in the last release may have introduced such bugs.

Assuming everything works, this should be the last release before 3.2 (for both Diablo and Fremantle).