Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:05, Florent Daigni?re wrote: >>> 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. > > Our Browse Freenet shortcut should really deal with this ... call firefox > explicitly if it's installed, and create a suitably configured profile if > there is one. As we've seen, Safari sucks for Freenet; so does Internet > Explorer, for different reasons. Obviously users can use their own browsers > if they want to, but there's a fundamental principle here: it must be really > easy to do the right thing, or nobody will. > > How exactly do we create a new profile in firefox, import a bundle of config > settings, and then start the browser with that profile, from a batch file / > shell script? And can you have two Firefox windows open set to different > config profiles simultaneously?
Yes, you can. I am sucessfully doing it to use firefox 2.x and a minefield version at the same time, this under windows. It does cause problems for some reason though with opening URLs using my default browser: if the minefield one (which is not default) is the only one open I can't click links in mails etc anymore, complaining that "my browser already has an open window". Apparently I would have to modify the default startup somehow to add the -no-remote part to allow firefox loading another instance. I have not researched if thats possible or not. --- John B?ckstrand
