Florent Daignière (NextGen$) wrote: > * David McNab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-08 14:10:31]: > >> Ian Clarke wrote: >>> On 7 May 2006, at 18:04, David McNab wrote: >>>> Ian Clarke wrote: >>>>> So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox >>>>> and have installed the plugin? >>>> ... >>>>> Isn't it preferable to encourage people >>>>> to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix? >>>> Seems we've got two imperfect options: >>>> >>>> 1) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to have their >>>> fproxy at 127.0.0.1:8888 >>> In which case the user will have some idea of why they are getting >>> broken links, as they will have made a conscious decision to change >>> their fproxy address. >>> >>>> versus >>>> >>>> 2) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to use an >>>> extensible open-source browser >>> Its not our job to punish the 90% of web users that don't agree with >>> your preferred choice of web browser. Worse, we would also be punishing >>> those people that do agree with your choice of web browser, but who >>> don't have the appropriate plugin. >>> >>>> Both scenarios suck, but IMHO the latter sucks a lot less. >>> Both scenarios are similar in terms of the poor user experience, the >>> differentiator is which is more likely. Going with freenet:-style urls >>> is much more likely to lead to scenario 2 than sticking with our current >>> approach is to lead to scenario 1. >> /me stifles the temptation to write an fproxyproxy > > It exists ! :) > > Try to set up your browser to use fproxy as an HTTP proxy server ;) > > IMHO it's even better in term of security as you're SURE that no > external link could be loaded by your browser. > > NextGen$
The latest version of SwitchProxy for Firefox allows 2-click proxy switching, so I've already got my fproxy configured in there. -- Cheers David _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
