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Browser Switchboard

Browser Switchboard (formerly browser-proxy) is a program which allows +you to choose which browser to use as the default browser on Maemo devices. +It supports MicroB, Tear, Fennec/Mobile Firefox, and Midori out of the box, +and can also be used to launch MicroB without having browserd running.

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Current Release

Version 3.0rc1 (2009/12/18) (Diablo package)

Release candidate -- not (yet) a stable release
Add a control panel applet to help configure the UI
Reimplement the core D-Bus proxy in C to improve speed and memory footprint
Default to launching MicroB as the default browser if unconfigured -- if you were using Browser Switchboard to launch Tear, you need to explicitly set Tear as the default browser using the UI (or by configuring by hand)
EXPERIMENTAL Fremantle support (see download page for source and packages). BACK UP before installing, and let me know how it goes!

Version 2.2 (2009/12/14) (Diablo package)

Rename the package to browser-switchboard
Move the config file to /home/user/.config/browser-switchboard, and +fall back to the old location if no config file is found
If no config file is found and Tear isn't installed, launch MicroB; +this avoids breaking link opening on a system with a freshly installed +browser-switchboard package and Tear not installed
Package no longer depends on Tear; should make it easier for users of +other alternative browsers to use Browser Switchboard
substantial documentation update

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Getting Browser Switchboard

Source code, packages for Diablo, and EXPERIMENTAL packages for Fremantle +can be found on the maemo Garage +download page. +Packages can also be installed from the maemo +extras-devel repository +(though don't blindly enable extras-devel and install/upgrade — see +the linked page first!)

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Quick Start

Download the binary package: browser-switchboard_X.Y-Z_all.deb +(where X.Y-Z is the version number, of course).
Install the package using the Application Manager (on Diablo, open the +Application Manager, then select Application->Install from file in the +menu).

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Browser Switchboard control panel UI
+You can now select the default browser by using the Browser Switchboard +applet in the Control Panel. Links in most applications, locally-saved +web pages opened from the file manager, and (for Maemo 4.x) entries in +the Web sidebar panel will open in the browser that you select as the +default. If you don't configure a default browser, MicroB will continue +to be used as the default browser.

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No matter which browser you select as the default, MicroB can always be +opened via the Web menu entry in the applications menu (for Maemo 4.x, +located in the Internet menu by default), or by running "browser" from +the shell. While MicroB is open, it will receive all links from other +applications; closing MicroB will restore your chosen default browser.

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Some users have reported that a restart may be necessary to ensure that +Browser Switchboard is functioning. If you experience trouble after +installing the package, try rebooting your device first.

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Documentation

See the +README +for further instructions on how to configure and use Browser Switchboard.

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Support

You can email your question to the maintainers (see below), or you can take +it to the +Tear thread +on the talk.maemo.org forums.

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Development

The latest source is available via a Git repository; you can check it out +by running

+git clone https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch
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from a shell. You can also +browse the repository using gitweb.

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Bug reports and patches can be emailed to the maintainers, or posted on the +forum thread.

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Maintainers

Steven Luo +<steven+maemo [at] steven676.net> +is the primary maintainer of Browser Switchboard, with assistance from Jason +Simpson (the original developer).

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