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Tuesday, 23. January 2007, 19:24:41

We decided to release the special Opera OLPC Edition for everybody to test on the target device. This build fixes the nasty javascript freeze that would kill your machine, and comes with its custom skin and toolbar.

What is different WRT a normal desktop build?

made with gcc 4.1 (instead of 2.95)
Qt 3.3.7 (instead of 3.3.5)
custom skin
custom toolbar
custom opera6rc

Yes, that's all there is different

Many thanks to Helmers and Toman for work on the skin, to Huibk for work on the toolbars, to Eddy for the packages - and many thanks to the full desktop team!

Opera runs smoothly out-of-the-box, and now even more so - at least on the BTest-1 machine we tested it on.

And how does Opera run on your OLPC XO?

P.S. Note that you can run the build also on a normal desktop Linux box - but make sure you read all the warnings first.

my operaquick find

As I understood, the XOs use application bundles, not the standard linux packaging system, the main reason being ease of (un)installing. Is this right ?

BTW, which dependencies does this Opera have ?

By dantesoft, # 24. January 2007, 01:17:17

dantesoft, yes that is correct - the XO uses activity bundles. Opera does not yet have its own bundle.

The OLPC package has virtually the same dependencies as the .1 static package. To run it on a XO you don't need to install anything else.

By csant, # 24. January 2007, 15:34:01

The B2s (firmware ver. Q2B21, software candidate build 239) are coming, man. What's the update on the browser's front ?

By dantesoft, # 25. January 2007, 15:26:12

I finally got Opera working on my OLPC after 2 attempts. It seems to work fine. I had to do this because the "Browse" activity which came with the OLPC (Mozilla Firefox) would not let me send or reply to email at Earthlink's Web Mail (although the read function worked OK). No one could figure out why I had that problem. Maybe other OLPC users will have similar problems. Opera seems like a much better application and has overcome the problem.

Thank you.

By JohnG2, # 16. February 2008, 00:26:11

Opera is great on the XO! Thanks for doing this.

csant, I don't know if you'll see this so long after the original post, but what would it take to update the OLPC version of Opera?

I ask because I notice that the version (9.0.48.0) of Adobe's flash-plugin that works best with the OLPC Opera edition is no longer officially available. Is there a "right" way to get Opera and flash working well on the XO?

Thanks for your efforts!

By schwaang, # 15. May 2008, 01:39:22

Originally posted by schwaang:

but what would it take to update the OLPC version of Opera?

Some more time (for us), and a bit more patience (for you)

By csant, # 15. May 2008, 05:59:20

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