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

[Matthew Toseland]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:08, John Bäckstrand wrote:
> 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.

Ugh. There goes any chance of a clean solution.

Browser plugin anyone?
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