Thread: Browser Switchboard - use any browser as the default
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2010-02-16 , 10:10
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#78
Originally Posted by steven676 View Post
  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).
1. Configured to use Tear as the default browser. Continuous mode turned off.
2. Rebooted.
3. Opened link from the RSS Reader; link opened in Tear.
4. With Tear still open and the default browser still set to Tear, MicroB started from the "Web" menu entry with the Bookmarks window and a blank window.
5. Opened the same link from the RSS Reader; link opened in MicroB, in a new window.
6. All MicroB browser windows closed.
7. Opened the same link from the RSS Reader; link opened in Tear, in a new window.
8. With Tear still open and the default browser still set to Tear, MicroB started from the "Web" menu entry with the Bookmarks window and a blank window.

Originally Posted by steven676 View Post
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.
It's been working consistently for ~12 hours for me.

Originally Posted by steven676 View Post
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 a previous release may have introduced such bugs.
Went to Reddit using the URL entry, added a bookmark and went to the settings to set the text size to "very large". Closed the Reddit window; the Bookmark window (as expected) closed automatically.

Loaded up MicroB using the Web entry in the menu. Reddit bookmark is showing in the Bookmarks window, the toolbar history shows "http://www.reddit.com" when I type "www.redd" and "Complete browsing history" shows I went on Reddit at 10:04 am. The setting for text size is still set to "Very large".
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