[freenet-dev] Firefox and Freenet

[Matthew Toseland]

On Friday 07 March 2008 13:46, Martin Nyhus wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:43 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Friday 07 March 2008 02:03, Florent Daignière wrote:
> > > They are numerous techniques to find it out; using the number of
> > > simultaneous connections the browser allows is less reliable than using
> > > http://ha.ckers.org/weird/CSS-history-hack.html for instance.
> > 
> > Nice. That's strictly an exploit, but not likely to be fixed (or does it 
not 
> > work in 3.0?). However, this would ALSO be solved by using an external 
> > profile for browsing freenet, because the cache and browser history are 
> > stored in the profile directory. IMHO this is the way to go... how exactly 
do 
> > we go about creating a profile directory for feeding to firefox? One minor 
> > thing: it should have a recognisably different theme, so that the user 
> > doesn't confuse it with their default browser. Anyone want to make one?
> 
> Creating a profile is really easy, just point Firefox to the folder you
> want, if it's empty a new profile is made in that folder, if not it will
> use the existing profile, and if the folder doesn't exist it won't start
> at all.
> 
> I've attached a profile with a some minor changes and the Simple
> Green[1] theme, and extensions can also be included.
> 
> [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6269

We also need a user.js suitable for Freenet. That means we need the connection 
settings changes that we recommend in the README, we need javascript, java, 
and loading images from foreign servers turned off, and any other obvious 
security options. And *maybe*, depending on whether users want to be able to 
visit sites from freenet after going through the confirm dialog, we want to 
set fproxy as a proxy.

The profile works with firefox on any platform? And it will never be 
auto-selected on a launch of firefox without passing it in, even if it was 
the last profile used?
> 
> Nogaso
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