[freenet-dev] Help!!!!!

[Florent Daignière]

* Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-03-25 19:41:59]:

> Sorry, I'm the idiot who decided to create a firefox profile. I was simply 
> trying to avoid some major performance issues we have because the default 
> settings are not good for Freenet, and asking users to change them globally 
> also sucks.
> 
> Freenet has not destroyed any data, it has simply created a second profile. It 
> launches it with -no-remote so it shouldn't be remembered by firefox, but 
> somehow in your instance it was ... what you have to do is open a command 
> line (start, run, type cmd), cd to the directory firefox is installed in, 
> e.g.:
> cd c:\program files\mozilla firefox
> Then:
> firefox -ProfileManager
> 
> You will then be presented with a list of installed profiles, including one 
> called default and one called freenet. Click on the one called default and 
> then click on the button to start firefox using that profile.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> Matthew Toseland,
> Chief Developer for Freenet on behalf of Freenet Project Incorporated.
> 
> PS support at freenetproject.org is usually the right place for these sorts of 
> issues.
> 
> To CC's: WTF are we going to do about this?

First of all ask the user about the exact firefox version he is using
and the output of the "about:buildconfig" page.

Then determine whether his browser has profiles compiled in or not... If
not we would also like to know where he got his browser from.

NextGen$
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