[freenet-dev] Explicitly invoking Firefox ?? was Re: Browser testing toadlet etc

[John Bäckstrand]

Matthew Toseland wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2008 01:05, Florent Daignière wrote:
>>> Of course, really we should have a browser plugin. The number of parallel 
>>> connections we recommend users allow will be easily detectable by a 
>>> hostile-to-freenet website which the user browses using the same browser.
>> Firefox allows the user to have "profiles" and different settings 
> per-profile.
> 
> Our Browse Freenet shortcut should really deal with this ... call firefox 
> explicitly if it's installed, and create a suitably configured profile if 
> there is one. As we've seen, Safari sucks for Freenet; so does Internet 
> Explorer, for different reasons. Obviously users can use their own browsers 
> if they want to, but there's a fundamental principle here: it must be really 
> easy to do the right thing, or nobody will.
> 
> How exactly do we create a new profile in firefox, import a bundle of config 
> settings, and then start the browser with that profile, from a batch file / 
> shell script? And can you have two Firefox windows open set to different 
> config profiles simultaneously?

Yes, you can. I am sucessfully doing it to use firefox 2.x and a 
minefield version at the same time, this under windows. It does cause 
problems for some reason though with opening URLs using my default 
browser: if the minefield one (which is not default) is the only one 
open I can't click links in mails etc anymore, complaining that "my 
browser already has an open window". Apparently I would have to modify 
the default startup somehow to add the -no-remote part to allow firefox 
loading another instance. I have not researched if thats possible or not.

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John Bäckstrand