* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-10-03 16:41:22]:

> On Sunday 28 September 2008 13:50, nextgens at freenetproject.org wrote:
> > Author: nextgens
> > Date: 2008-09-28 12:50:15 +0000 (Sun, 28 Sep 2008)
> > New Revision: 22878
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/apps/new_installer/res/firefox_profile/chrome/userChrome.css
> > Log:
> > firefox_profile: we don't need to display the menu anymore
> 
> Why exactly do we not want to show the preferences box?

Because it's a pain in the ass to limit properly what the user is allowed or
not to do there.

> I can understand not 
> showing bookmarks - we have our own bookmarks system, which is better 
> optimised for Freenet (background USK updating). I'm not sure about history. 
> Edward Langenback on the support list has been arguing for more 
> configurability - shouldn't we allow the user to configure the browser?

Ask him for a patch. As long as I'm the one maintaining it it stays like
that unless a patch is provided... And be aware that I would be more than
happy to hand over the maintainance of that XUL part.

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