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<h1>Browser Switchboard</h1>
+
+<p>
+<img src="cp-screenshot-diablo.jpg" width="350" alt="Browser Switchboard control panel screenshot on Diablo">
+<img src="cp-screenshot-fremantle.jpg" width="350" alt="Browser Switchboard control panel screenshot on Fremantle">
+</p>
+
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Current Release</h2>
-<p>Version 3.0rc1 (2009/12/18) (<a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/7081/browser-switchboard_3.0rc1-1_armel.deb">Diablo package</a>)</p>
+<p>Version 3.1 (2010/01/15) (<a href="browser-switchboard.install">Diablo one-click install</a>, <a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/7447/browser-switchboard_3.1-2fremantle2_armel.deb">Alpha-quality Fremantle package</a>)</p>
<ul>
-<li>Release candidate -- not (yet) a stable release</li>
-<li>Add a control panel applet to help configure the UI</li>
-<li>Reimplement the core D-Bus proxy in C to improve speed and memory footprint</li>
-<li>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)</li>
-<li><b>EXPERIMENTAL</b> Fremantle support (see <a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1159">download page</a> for source and packages). BACK UP before installing, and let me know how it goes!</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Version 2.2 (2009/12/14) (<a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/download.php/7038/browser-switchboard_2.2-1_all.deb">Diablo package</a>)</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Rename the package to browser-switchboard</li>
-<li>Move the config file to /home/user/.config/browser-switchboard, and
-fall back to the old location if no config file is found</li>
-<li>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</li>
-<li>Package no longer depends on Tear; should make it easier for users of
-other alternative browsers to use Browser Switchboard</li>
-<li>substantial documentation update</li>
+<li>Fremantle: add a new, more finger-friendly GUI, based on work by Faheem Pervez</li>
+<li>make sure reconfig signal (SIGHUP) doesn't interrupt dispatch of a request when continuous mode is off</li>
+<li>disable autocapitalization and predictive text features for the other_browser_cmd entry in the UI</li>
</ul>
<h2>Getting Browser Switchboard</h2>
-<p>Source code, packages for Diablo, and EXPERIMENTAL packages for Fremantle
-can be found on the maemo Garage
+<p><b>For Diablo/Maemo 4.1</b>, the recommended way to install Browser
+Switchboard is via the Maemo
+<a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras">Extras repository</a>,
+which is enabled by default in the Application Manager.
+You should find Browser Switchboard in the Application Manager catalog under
+the network category. Alternately, if you're viewing this page on your Diablo
+device, opening the <a href="browser-switchboard.install">one-click install</a>
+will install the package from Maemo Extras for you.</p>
+<p>Source code and packages can also be found on the Maemo Garage
+<a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1159">download page</a>.</p>
+
+<p><b>For Fremantle/Maemo 5</b>, alpha-quality packages and source code
+can be found on the Maemo Garage
<a href="https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1159">download page</a>.
-Packages can also be installed from the maemo
+Packages can also be installed from the Maemo
<a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-devel">extras-devel repository</a>
(though don't blindly enable extras-devel and install/upgrade — see
the linked page first!)</p>
<h2>Quick Start</h2>
+<p><b>For Diablo/Maemo 4.1</b>, just open the
+<a href="browser-switchboard.install">one-click install</a> in a browser on
+your device and follow the instructions to install Browser Switchboard.</p>
+<p><b>For Fremantle/Maemo 5</b>, or if you want to install the package by hand:</p>
<ol>
<li>Download the binary package: browser-switchboard_X.Y-Z_all.deb
(where X.Y-Z is the version number, of course).</li>
-<li>Install the package using the Application Manager (on Diablo, open the
-Application Manager, then select Application->Install from file in the
-menu).</li>
+<li>Install the package using the Application Manager.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src="cpapplet-diablo.jpg" width=320 alt="Browser Switchboard control panel UI"><br>
the shell. While MicroB is open, it will receive all links from other
applications; closing MicroB will restore your chosen default browser.</p>
-<p>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.</p>
+<p>For Fremantle/Maemo 5, a restart is necessary to ensure that
+Browser Switchboard is functioning. In any event, if you experience trouble
+after installing the package, try rebooting your device first.</p>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>See the
-<a href="https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD">README</a>
+<a href="http://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD">README</a>
for further instructions on how to configure and use Browser Switchboard.</p>
<h2>Support</h2>
<p>You can email your question to the maintainers (see below), or you can take
it to the
-<a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=28539">Tear thread</a>
+<a href="http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38273">Browser Switchboard thread</a>
on the talk.maemo.org forums.</p>
<h2>Development</h2>
git clone https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch
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<p>from a shell. You can also
-<a href="https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=summary">browse the repository</a> using gitweb.</p>
+<a href="http://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch/?p=browser-switch;a=summary">browse the repository</a> using gitweb.</p>
<p>Bug reports and patches can be emailed to the maintainers, or posted on the
forum thread.</p>
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