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Originally Posted by steven676 View Post
I'm pleased to announce Browser Switchboard development release 3.3b1 for Diablo and Fremantle. Packages are now available in extras-devel and on the Garage download page.

This is a development release designed to get new code into circulation; it's not received the usual level of testing and may be buggy.
I played around a bit on my N900 and everything seems to work as expected. I tested Fennec/Firefox as alternative Browser and also switched back to microb as default browser.

Remaining things to deal with before 3.3:
  • [Fremantle] Further improvements to the MicroB launching process -- the goal is to get to the point where the user experience when MicroB is selected as the default browser is identical to that when Browser Switchboard isn't installed. (Completely untested code implementing most of the ideas lives in the fremantle-microb-improvements branch in Git, if anyone wants to look at it.)
  • In the UI, don't let the user configure a browser that's not installed.

I can't promise a timeframe on any of this -- it could be a while before I have time to return to this project.
Regarding the "microb as default browser does not feel like without installed browser switchboard" problematic: Do you think it would be possible to implement it in a way that choosing "microb" as default browser will do exactly the same as the uninstall process would do but without removing the browser switchboard menu in the settings?
Even without solving this problem browser-switchboard is one of the most useful pieces of software for maemo!

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