[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

[Florent Daignière]

* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-03-06 22:39:35]:

> On Thursday 06 March 2008 21:17, Colin Davis wrote:
> > 
> > > 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 ?
> > >   
> > >   
> > Portable Firefox is what TorPark uses.
> > 
> > There is a version of Portable Firefox for Mac.
> > http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/firefox/
> > 
> > Linux users are likely proficient enough to change their own settings... 
> 
> Not necessarily, a lot use Ubuntu etc and may not be especially competent. 
> Anyway we want to avoid changing settings, because the settings that work 
> well for Freenet stick out and are easily detectable on the web.
> 

As far as I remember we have always been asking users to change that
setting... I don't think that you can reliably fingerprint freenet users
with it. Many websites give it as a "tip" to improve browsing performances;
there would be too many false positives for it to be a reliable metric.

NextGen$
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