Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> On Friday 23 May 2008 11:38, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>>> 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?
>> I'd welcome any suggestions. So far, afaics the options are:
>> 1) Fix the Firefox bug that causes the profile resetting. -no-remote should 
>> cause it not only to not coalesce with an existing Firefox copy, but also 
> not 
>> to write to the default profile. Also find a new skin that works with FF3, 
>> and ideally is a little more stable!
>> 2) Build something using XULRunner. I believe this is the recommended way of 
>> doing things according to the Firefox devs. They provide a sample browser 
>> implemented in XUL, but it's *really* minimal, no right-click-go-back for 
>> example.
>> 3) Bundle a "portable" browser.
> 4) Bundle a browser plugin.

Maybe we can steal some code from this plugin:
https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/profileswitcher-en.html

it's under GPLv3 (source is in the .xpi) and as far as I have tested, it
doesn't have the bug you described. So we could still provide a
Firefox-Profile (which isn't used by default) but also ask (in the
install wizard) to install the plugin. We alter it's behaviour in such a
way, that it simply provides a "Browse Freenet" button or menu item
which then loads our custom profile.
The advantage would be, that the user has to opt-in and that while he's
in the browser he can easily browse Freenet (no need to switch through
start menus).

-- 
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