[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

[Matthew Toseland]

On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:32, Colin Davis wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Not a bad idea, although it's an additional 6MB download, and one more thing 
to update (does it auto-update?). And it's windows specific: what would we do 
on linux and OS/X ?
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