On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote:
> On Saturday 24 October 2009 00:38:48 Juiceman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Matthew Toseland > > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Remember to put the revised update.new.cmd on the website please. > > Are you sure that the wget over HTTPS works? There might be certificate > issues, as Freenet uses a startcom free cert? I.e. do I need to revert that > change first? > > > > Also, if you put the real freenettray.exe there I can finish and test > > the update script so we can have that functionality. > > Done. > I am getting a zero length file (or a 404 error depending on which mirror I get directed to) when I do wget.exe --timeout=5 --tries=5 --waitretry=10 http://downloads.freenetproject.org/alpha/installer/freenettray.exe -O freenettray.exe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20091023/78afd632/attachment.html>
