What are the advantages of MicroB over Opera? Is it worth installing? Any tips on a smooth installation process - I have seen forum entries which indicate getting the right repositories can be difficult.

Theoretically MicroB should be able to show web pages which can't be shown correctly in Opera.
But unfortunately the reality is different.

Definately NO !

I did it, and the installation wasn't the main problem.

Seems they first messed up repo contents and dependencies,
but that shouldn't be a problem now.

But after the installation nothing really worked anymore.
Switching back to the Opera engine didn't help,
even the deinstallation didn't work,
the installation was completely trashed.
I mean not only no browser worked from that time on,
but also some other of the built-in apps behaved quirky.

I had to reflash my 770.

My suggestion: On the 770, just use the built-in Opera, and avoid more demanding (or complex) web pages.
Forget sites like eBay, your unit (or at least the browser) will crash at least once a day.

Hope they finally get it right with OS2008.
So maybe you should get a cheap 800, and upgrade that to OS2008...

HTH

Ray

MicroB on 2006 = Problems.

I had the same as the other poster, once installed no amount of coaxing would bring back Opera to functional.

I ended up trying 2007HE and despite that it's the same Opera it seems faster ( once booted ). I also turn OFF javascript and plugins because they are much more hassle than they are worth on the 770.

Buy.com is also taunting me with their falling n800 prices.

I personally much prefer Minimo 0.2 to MicroB. It doesn't share bookmarks with Opera or MicroB, but the 0.2 release seems a lot more stable to me, and it's a LOT faster/smaller than the 0.16 release was.

ebay, for the most part, works well, except putting an item up for sale.

I tried it on os2007he, and it just crashed. Had to reflash to get opera back. Then I found the flash 9 plugin, and have been using that successfully for the last week or so. Much better than having to install a 2nd browser.