* David Sowder (Zothar) <freenet-devl at david.sowder.com> [2008-03-25 19:13:13]:
> 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. /me grins about top-posting once again I've investigated that and the problem with that solution is that many misconfigured firewalls allow traffic from 127.0.0.1/32 but not 127.0.0.0/8 as they are supposed to ... > > 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 support at freenetproject.org 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 at freenetproject.org > >> http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080326/6ab23db0/attachment.pgp>
