[freenet-chat] (amended) HOWTO: firefox 'freenet:' protocol handling

[Florent Daignière (NextGen$)]

* David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> [2006-05-08 14:10:31]:

> Ian Clarke wrote:
> > On 7 May 2006, at 18:04, David McNab wrote:
> >> Ian Clarke wrote:
> >>> So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox
> >>> and have installed the plugin?
> >> ...
> >>>  Isn't it preferable to encourage people
> >>> to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix?
> >>
> >> Seems we've got two imperfect options:
> >>
> >> 1) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to have their
> >> fproxy at 127.0.0.1:8888
> > 
> > In which case the user will have some idea of why they are getting
> > broken links, as they will have made a conscious decision to change
> > their fproxy address.
> > 
> >> versus
> >>
> >> 2) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to use an
> >> extensible open-source browser
> > 
> > Its not our job to punish the 90% of web users that don't agree with
> > your preferred choice of web browser.  Worse, we would also be punishing
> > those people that do agree with your choice of web browser, but who
> > don't have the appropriate plugin.
> > 
> >> Both scenarios suck, but IMHO the latter sucks a lot less.
> > 
> > Both scenarios are similar in terms of the poor user experience, the
> > differentiator is which is more likely.  Going with freenet:-style urls
> > is much more likely to lead to scenario 2 than sticking with our current
> > approach is to lead to scenario 1.
> 
> /me stifles the temptation to write an fproxyproxy

It exists ! :)

Try to set up your browser to use fproxy as an HTTP proxy server ;)

IMHO it's even better in term of security as you're SURE that no
external link could be loaded by your browser.

NextGen$
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