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Here’s some good news for all you Motorola Droid lovers; the multi-touch enabled browser of the Motorola Milestone (the european version of the Droid) has been…

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Here’s some good news for all you Motorola Droid lovers; the multi-touch enabled browser of the Motorola Milestone (the european version of the Droid) has been extracted and ported to the Droid as you can see in the following video:

Your device must me rooted first:

Instructions:
– Do a nandroid backup or whatever to back up the files (Browser.apk and Browser.odex) you’ll be patching (ps: I’m not responsible for you screwing up your phone)
– Remount /system to RW (mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system)
– Delete /system/app/Browser.odex
– Extract the zip file somewhere on your computer
– adb push libmtwebcore.so /system/lib
– adb push Browser.apk /system/app/Browser.apk
– Profit!

Head over here to grab the files

Source: alldroid forums

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