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Recent emails to the support list reminded me of something.

Early this week, I've covered Freenet 0.7 on a seminar on P2P
technologies I'm leading at my University. Several students had
installed it to try it out, and so far I got three reports, all sounding
like "OMG IT MADE SOMETHING TO MY FIREFOX PLEASE HELP".

Mind you, they're studying at the department of computer science in one
of our best Universities for 3+ years, at least one of them runs Linux
on his laptop, so all in all they're quite above the average level when
it comes to using a computer.

However, it seems that change to Firefox behavior wasn't something they
were expecting or were able to quickly remediate. I personally hadn't
had this problem, since I was following mailing lists and knew what to
expect - but still was scared a little when I saw Freenet skin for FF
for the first time :-).

I'm not pushing for any immediate changes, but perhaps being more
user-friendly regarding the custom FF profile is something to consider
for 0.7.1?

On a somewhat related note, I also got several reports that Freenet
works very well. Interestingly, many students have discovered and began
using FMS, but no one had mentioned Frost so far. Some have also found
Thaw and told me that "it's not working", I know that Thaw's not without
its share of bugs, but it *did* work for me when I was trying it out.
Could it be DoSed now just as Frost is?

Regards,
Victor Denisov.
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