On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:08, John B?ckstrand wrote: > 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.
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