I have merged the beta branch of the wininstaller, in accordance with instructions from Juiceman and Zero3. The main changes in this branch are that it doesn't create a custom user to run Freenet in (which caused many problems for many users installing it due to password policies, anti-virus software, and things we don't understand), and that it has a system tray icon, from where the user can conveniently (provided his system tray isn't hopelessly cluttered already) start or stop or browse Freenet.
In testing, it works, and so does Freenet. However there are a number of issues we need to deal with: - "Launch Freenet after installation" - Freenet will run anyway, launching it means browsing it, maybe we should change "Launch Freenet" here and in the system tray menu to "Browse Freenet"? - TUFI menus don't show up well in Chrome. Chrome is our default browser on Windows because it has incognito mode, which we use. The author of TUFI should fix the stylesheet so that the drop-down menus are usable on Chrome, please! (Can somebody please forward this request via the FMS board please?) - Chrome sometimes seems to lose the web interface CSS, showing either a blank screen or a non-styled copy of the loading a page or dangerous content page. There were no errors in the log concerning fproxy. Reload and even shift+reload make no difference, but restarting Chrome fixes this. Initially I had thought it might be related to it using lots of connections as I was loading many sites with many images, but that didn't seem to make any difference. Thoughts? - We have a flag to tell Freenet that we are running Chrome in incognito mode, which will show a much shorter and less worrying browsers warning at the beginning of the wizard. However, bugs in Chrome mean that just because we tell Chrome to open Freenet in incognito mode doesn't mean it actually will. I had turned off this flag, Juiceman turned it back on, for now I have turned it back off, because it is a security issue. Thoughts? The next build will be released with the new installer in any case. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091023/c5aaa894/attachment.pgp>
