* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-02-27 21:08:02]:

> We should have a test-your-browser toadlet.

We do.

> If your browser doesn't have a 
> reasonably high max simultaneous connections setting, it should tell the user 
> so and explain how to fix it.

The current one does it to some extend.

> We could have this presented at the end of the 
> first-time setup wizard, call it "Optimise your browser for Freenet" or 
> something.
> 
> Nextgens started work on this a while ago, how goes it?

Well it's already deployed (http://localhost:8888/test/) but I'm not sure
that the mime-inlining feature is working (hasn't been tested on a
vulnerable browser yet).

> 
> Of course, really we should have a browser plugin. The number of parallel 
> connections we recommend users allow will be easily detectable by a 
> hostile-to-freenet website which the user browses using the same browser.

Firefox allows the user to have "profiles" and different settings per-profile.

NextGen$
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