On approach, at least to avoid the stats page not returning after starting the loading of 10 freesites on separate tabs, might be to separate the node control/stats parts of FProxy from the key fetching parts by placing one of the two on a separate TCP port.
Matthew Toseland wrote: > Okay, having investigated this, I'm fairly confident of the current theory: > - If a copy of Firefox is already running with the default profile, and we > launch a copy with our profile (-no-remote -P <profile name>), everything > works fine (as long as our copy exits before the default one does). > - The default Firefox obviously doesn't have the -no-remote command line > option. We do. > - If the default profile is NOT running when we load our copy of firefox with > our custom profile, when the link to firefox is clicked on, it coalesces with > our copy and opens a new window using our profile and not the default > profile. Therefore, it appears that the user's firefox has been damaged and > we've deleted all their bookmarks etc etc. > > You can replicate this easily enough: create a custom theme (e.g. by > installing freenet), exit all copies of firefox, launch one > with "firefox -no-remote -P <profile name>", then launch a second copy with > just "firefox". The second will assume it is supposed to be an extra window > for the first, and will use the custom profile, not the default profile. If > however you exit the custom profile first, the second instance will use the > default profile. > > As far as I can see, we have three options: > 1. Don't ship a custom firefox theme. Ask users to tweak their firefox theme > for better freenet performance, knowing full well that it is a security risk > and a waste of bandwidth when accessing the regular web. Anyway, nobody will > even if we DO ask them to: people are lazy, and it involves somewhat arcane > config setting. > 2. Ship a copy of Portable Firefox (~ 6MB), or some other self contained > browser. Find some way to auto-update it. > 3. Give up and hope people will realise that opening 10 freesites in separate > tabs and then trying to get to the stats page isn't a good idea. No, they > won't realise this, they'll assume Freenet is broken - our own regular users > do this on the IRC channel. > > Anyone got any better ideas? > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008 19:41, Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> Sorry, I'm the idiot who decided to create a firefox profile. I was simply >> trying to avoid some major performance issues we have because the default >> settings are not good for Freenet, and asking users to change them globally >> also sucks. >> >> Freenet has not destroyed any data, it has simply created a second profile. >> > It > >> launches it with -no-remote so it shouldn't be remembered by firefox, but >> somehow in your instance it was ... what you have to do is open a command >> line (start, run, type cmd), cd to the directory firefox is installed in, >> e.g.: >> cd c:\program files\mozilla firefox >> Then: >> firefox -ProfileManager >> >> You will then be presented with a list of installed profiles, including one >> called default and one called freenet. Click on the one called default and >> then click on the button to start firefox using that profile. >> >> Sorry. >> >> Matthew Toseland, >> Chief Developer for Freenet on behalf of Freenet Project Incorporated. >> >> PS [EMAIL PROTECTED] is usually the right place for these sorts of >> issues. >> >> To CC's: WTF are we going to do about this? >> >> On Tuesday 25 March 2008 19:13, Brian Walsh wrote: >> >>> I recently decided to try Freenet. Just the act of installing it has >>> destroyed my internet connectivity. Freenet took over Firefox, wiping out >>> all of my bookmarks and extensions. I uninstalled Freenet and Firefox will >>> not start. I have reinstalled Firefox and it still will not start. I >>> desperatly need Firefox to work on my system. You must have seen this >>> before, do you know how to fix it? Or has Freenet so thoroughly hosed me >>> that I need to reinstall my system. Please help if you can, I installed >>> Freenet in good faith and didn't expect it to so badly harm me. >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devl mailing list >> Devl@freenetproject.org >> http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
