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.
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