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[drew]

Will I be able to load Firefox or Opera within Sugar? The default browser works, but I'd like to be able to have multiple tabs, and I'm used to Firefox bookmarks.  Also, what about the Thunderbird email client?  Any thoughts?

If I had another Linux OS (Puppy Linux, etc.) that boots from a USB memory stick, would that be an option?  Replacing Sugar isn't an option, it's got way too many cool features and ALOT of potential!

thanks everyone.

PS scratch that dual-boot question, I just found it in the Hacks topics.

cheers!

[jerpenner]

Information about opera available here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Opera

[yadeyrinii]

Saying go to here:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Web_Browser is simply not enough. Lots of people are having trouble installing Opera on their XO. The question is HOW to install the browser, the instructions are straightforward but if followed don't work.

The best I can figure is try to get the opera rpm file on a flashdrive and then install from there, but now the question is how to access a flash drive from terminal?

[decibel]

Saying go to here:http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Web_Browser is simply not enough. Lots of people are having trouble installing Opera on their XO. The question is HOW to install the browser, the instructions are straightforward but if followed don't work.

The best I can figure is try to get the opera rpm file on a flashdrive and then install from there, but now the question is how to access a flash drive from terminal?

 Have you seen this?

[isforinsects]

The opera port for the XO is about a year out of date.  Although I bet that the Opera people will pick it up again now that they can get Mass Production machines readily.  They only had one B2 machine (half the processor and half the ram) last I heard.  But they didn't really need anything more for Opera, it runs pretty light.

Go Opera.  You're closed source, but at least you're open standards.

[RegAubry]

Also, are there buttons you can press - in either keyboard or tablet mode - to shrink/expand the text in the browser?  or keyboard shortcuts?

[Frank Scott]

Good information about installing the Opera OLPC Edition here:

http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/704304

[jboeke]

Also, are there buttons you can press - in either keyboard or tablet mode - to shrink/expand the text in the browser?  or keyboard shortcuts?

If you are running Opera, the number 0 will make the text bigger (zoom in) and the number 9 will zoom out.

More keyboard shortcuts for Opera here:  http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/keyboard/

[RegAubry]

Yeah, my original question about changing text size was regarding the native browser.  Once I had Opera installed, I've been all set.  Thanks!