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I've been playing around with netsurf-fb, albeit without success running it from Advanced launcher. However, if you exit xbmc to a terminal screen, you can run the command netsurf-fb -b 16 and it "works". Not ideal, as you need a keyboard and mouse to navigate but it does work - albeit not as slick as you may be used to on Windoze or Ubuntu.

The "current" Advanced Launcher does not work with Xbian RC4 (2013 build) (Error source.py) you will need to get the latest from Advanced Launcher (1.10.15 at last look) and install as a zip file.

If you get an error about permissions to /dev/fb0 or similar, it probably becuase /dev/fb0 is not allowed for user xbian. Either run the command as root, or add "video" group to the user xbian,

Code:

sudo usermod -a -G video xbian

and it will work after a reboot.

Ideally, I would like to see a browser within xbmc as I'd like my music to continue whilst I browse the web. It may not be possible, with the pi, but it does work on my Ubuntu xbmc.