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2010-05-28
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#132
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Originally Posted by leetut
Hm, I wasn't aware that we had Chromium on Maemo before I saw this ...
i have fennec, opera, and chromium installed but i only really use microb.
Out of curiosity, does setting the default browser to "Other" and the command to "/opt/chromium/chrome %s" work for making Chromium the default browser? If so, support should be really easy to add to Browser Switchboard.
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2010-05-28
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#133
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steven676- Thanks the new version is great. it seems like Opera launches faster if it is configured specifically, is that possible?
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2010-05-29
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#134
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Originally Posted by ffarber
Not really -- the code path and mechanism is exactly the same as it would be if you had configured Opera to launch by setting the default browser to "Other" and the command to "opera %s". Unless you're bored enough to produce benchmarks, I'd chalk it up to placebo effect.
steven676- Thanks the new version is great. it seems like Opera launches faster if it is configured specifically, is that possible?
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2010-05-29
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#135
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Originally Posted by steven676
Agreed- I started a five week motorcycle tour of the US yesterday so have other things to focus on
Not really -- the code path and mechanism is exactly the same as it would be if you had configured Opera to launch by setting the default browser to "Other" and the command to "opera %s". Unless you're bored enough to produce benchmarks, I'd chalk it up to placebo effect.
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2010-05-30
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#136
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I've now promoted the Diablo packages for Browser Switchboard 3.2-2 to extras. Still not sure about what should be done about the Fremantle extras-devel/extras-testing situation, though.
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2010-05-30
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#137
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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.
Changes in this release:
Remaining things to deal with before 3.3:
I can't promise a timeframe on any of this -- it could be a while before I have time to return to this project.
Potential features post-3.3:
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.
Changes in this release:
- Provide a command-line tool for configuring Browser Switchboard which can be used by browser developers to set their browser as the default. See the commit message for more information. This interface isn't set in stone, so if you have comments, please let me know.
- Fall back to MicroB instead of silently failing if the configured default browser is not installed.
- Rename the MicroB option in the control panel to "MicroB (stock browser)", as some have pointed out that the MicroB name isn't used anywhere and is therefore not familiar to many users. Better wording suggestions are welcome.
- A significant rewrite of the configuration system. (If anything, this is where the new bugs will be ...)
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.
Potential features post-3.3:
- Offer an interface for browser developers to tell Browser Switchboard how to launch their browsers, so that they don't have to wait for me to add support to the code.
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2010-05-30
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#138
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Originally Posted by steven676
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.
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.
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.
Even without solving this problem browser-switchboard is one of the most useful pieces of software for maemo!
Ciao Uwe
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2010-05-30
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#139
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Originally Posted by jukey
It's possible, but somewhat complex and a bit tricky to do safely; I kicked around this idea for a while before deciding to go another route.
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?
We'd need to gain root privileges, then change /usr/bin/browser and /usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.nokia.osso_browser.service (we'd need some symlink magic, since otherwise a device crash here would leave things in a broken state), then start or stop MicroB's background browser process as appropriate. I'm also not clear as to how we'd handle upgrades from previous versions, and I'm keen to avoid another flag day (like the browser-proxy -> browser-switchboard transition).
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2010-08-01
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#140
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I have successfully used the browser switchboard now for several month on my N900. For some reason I have uninstalled and re-installed it, but I have experienced the following troubles:
After the uninstallation my MicroB desktop shortcut had disappeared, too.
After the re-installation from extras-devel the widget didn't appear in the status aerea. Rebooting maemo didn't help. Opera mobile now is still my default browser as before the uninstallation, and I'm unable to change that setting.
Any help?
After the uninstallation my MicroB desktop shortcut had disappeared, too.
After the re-installation from extras-devel the widget didn't appear in the status aerea. Rebooting maemo didn't help. Opera mobile now is still my default browser as before the uninstallation, and I'm unable to change that setting.
Any help?
I'm pleased to announce Browser Switchboard releases 3.2-2 (stable, for Diablo) and 3.2-2fremantle1 (beta, for Fremantle). Packages are now available in extras-devel and on the Garage download page.
Changes in this release:
For more information on the changes in this release, see the changelogs for the packages (Diablo, Fremantle); for excruciating detail, see the revision history in Git.
I expect to push the Diablo package into extras in a day or two, if no one reports problems. (It'd be nice to push the updated Fremantle package into extras-testing, since the existing one won't work on PR1.2, but it presumably won't pass QA and I don't want to waste tester time. Suggestions?)
Things coming up in 3.3: