I just tried the new webinstaller on my win2k system, installing on top of a
very (6 months) old unused installation. Everything went well, defaults all
worked. When Freenet started and the icon appeared in my task bar, I moused
over it and saw "Freenet is Running". Double-clicked and got an error in IE
that the service wasn't available. I waited a few seconds and hit refresh,
and it worked fine.
*** The taskbar icon shouldn't say "Freenet is Running" until a user could
reasonably double-click it and get the intro page. Double-clicking the
taskbar icon probably shouldn't pop up a browser until Freenet is really
ready, too.
Once it came up, I clicked the first link in the intro page ("The Freedom
Engine") and waited. And waited. And saw the little IE logo spinning. And
waited. And nearly gave up. And then the page started to load.
*** A fresh Freenet install should request the home pages for the 4 intro
page sites. If you want new Windows users to have a good experience, this
would help a lot. It might also help their node start to get integrated
into the network, by doing some requests. New Windows users aren't going to
run Frost or go directly to Freenet pages. They're going to hit TFE first
90% of the time. Go ahead and request it at startup.
Clicking "Distribution Node" took me to http://127.0.0.1:8891/, which gave
"Cannot find server or DNS Error"
General comment:
*** There's no in-browser help for what's what. I don't see a way within
the Freenet "browser-based application" to figure out what the "Distribution
Node" link (or the others) should be doing.
-glenn
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