[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

[Colin Davis]

> Both IE and Safari have *MAJOR* problems with Freenet. Safari waits for all 
> the images to be loaded before even attempting to render the page; IE 
> autodetects HTML even when it is told that a page is plain text (which is a 
> major security breach as an attacker can then send unfiltered HTML including 
> webbugs and scripting). Therefore neither is appropriate for Freenet. I'd 
> seriously consider a browser plugin at this point, but it'd probably need to 
> be a full browser fork and there's no way we have the resources for one.
>
>   
Fair points, I hadn't realized the situation with IE and Safari was so 
dire.
What about shipping Freenet with a copy of Portable Firefox?

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

It runs out of it's own directory, so the project could pre-configure 
the settings for it, rather than adding a profile to the existing 
installation.