X-Git-Url: http://git.maemo.org/git/?p=browser-switch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=www%2Findex.html;h=1ff8dfb6ed7a1d53dcd3394cc2c1d5bcc47e8601;hp=748974d72fb2a2783a813860405df69eb9dc6b23;hb=1b9d8d7e155a26f19ed752313e081deebd57b1a9;hpb=5b6a80da00cb250dbe07388f36a3cd0634b964a1 diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html index 748974d..1ff8dfb 100644 --- a/www/index.html +++ b/www/index.html @@ -9,49 +9,54 @@

Browser Switchboard

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+ Browser Switchboard control panel screenshot on Diablo + +

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.

Current Release

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

Version 3.1 (2010/01/15) (Diablo one-click install, Fremantle package (alpha quality))

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
Fremantle: add a new, more finger-friendly GUI, based on work by Faheem Pervez
make sure reconfig signal (SIGHUP) doesn't interrupt dispatch of a request when continuous mode is off
disable autocapitalization and predictive text features for the other_browser_cmd entry in the UI

Getting Browser Switchboard

Source code, packages for Diablo, and EXPERIMENTAL packages for Fremantle -can be found on the maemo Garage +

For Diablo/Maemo 4.1, the recommended way to install Browser +Switchboard is via the Maemo +Extras repository, +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 one-click install +will install the package from Maemo Extras for you.

Source code and packages can also be found on the Maemo Garage +download page.

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For Fremantle/Maemo 5, alpha-quality packages and source code +can be found on the Maemo Garage download page. -Packages can also be installed from the maemo +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!)

Quick Start

For Diablo/Maemo 4.1, just open the +one-click install in a browser on +your device and follow the instructions to install Browser Switchboard.

For Fremantle/Maemo 5, or if you want to install the package by hand:

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).
Install the package using the Application Manager.

Browser Switchboard control panel UI
@@ -68,19 +73,19 @@ 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.

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.

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.

Documentation

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

Support

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

Development

@@ -90,7 +95,7 @@ by running

git clone https://git.maemo.org/projects/browser-switch

from a shell. You can also -browse the repository using gitweb.

+browse the repository using gitweb.

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