* Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-19 11:55:30]:

> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 00:56, Florent Daignière wrote:
> > * Matthew Toseland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 18:12:39]:
> > 
> > > On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > Author: nextgens
> > > > Date: 2008-03-16 12:14:56 +0000 (Sun, 16 Mar 2008)
> > > > New Revision: 18552
> > > > 
> > > > Added:
> > > >    trunk/apps/new_installer/res/firefox_profile/chrome/
> > > >    trunk/apps/new_installer/res/firefox_profile/chrome/userChrome.css
> > > > Log:
> > > > new_installer: don't show menus the user has no use of
> > > 
> > > Like the Bookmarks menu? Why?
> > 
> > Because we don't want them to use this profile to browse the internet?
> > (they would end up reactivating cookies, javascript, ...)
> 
> Bookmarks are per-profile, so there's no threat there.

It's not a matter of bookmarks. We don't want users to be tempted to
change the profile's configuration so that they can browse the internet.
Hiding menus is a good way to prevent them from doing so.

> 
> > Because we want people to use the bookmark feature of fproxy?
> 
> So?

It's not about threats... it's about ensuring the data people are
interrested in will remain on the network. Most newbies don't know about
data-persistence related matters on freenet.

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