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

[Florent Daignière]

* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-02-28 10:55:14]:

> 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.
> 

I think that putting the TestToadlet (or a prettier version of it) at the end
of the wizard would be enough.

> 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?

That's a pita (I don't think that profiles are compatible in between
versions)

>And can you have two Firefox windows open set to different 
> config profiles simultaneously?

That's doable
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