[Sugar-devel] Browse problems - alternatives?

[Gonzalo Odiard]

There are a option, help fix the issues with Browse ;)

Gonzalo

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au>wrote:

> There appear to be several deficiencies, and even regressions, in
> recent versions of Browse for the XO. Version 108.4, as included in
> the latest OLPC OS, crashes on some Web sites[0] and can't display
> pop-up/dialogue boxes[1][2].
>
> I understand that Browse development has progressed past that, but
> AFAICS the Sugar 0.84 in the OLPC OS cannot use any later version. We
> need to work within this reality probably for the next year, which
> means that I am looking for a Web browser that works better for the
> existing OS. We could use the installed Fedora Firefox, but that
> either requires switching to GNOME or loading from the terminal (not
> user friendly). The Firefox activity I've seen for Sugar[3] is quite
> old.
>
> Are there any other alternatives?
>
>
>
> [0] http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/511
> [1] http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/472
> [2] http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/385
> [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firefox/Obsolete
>
>
>
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Technical Manager
> One Laptop per Child Australia
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