On Thursday 06 March 2008 16:32, Colin Davis wrote: > > > Both IE and Safari have *MAJOR* problems with Freenet. Safari waits for all > > the images to be loaded before even attempting to render the page; IE > > autodetects HTML even when it is told that a page is plain text (which is a > > major security breach as an attacker can then send unfiltered HTML including > > webbugs and scripting). Therefore neither is appropriate for Freenet. I'd > > seriously consider a browser plugin at this point, but it'd probably need to > > be a full browser fork and there's no way we have the resources for one. > > > > > Fair points, I hadn't realized the situation with IE and Safari was so > dire. > What about shipping Freenet with a copy of Portable Firefox? > > http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable > > It runs out of it's own directory, so the project could pre-configure > the settings for it, rather than adding a profile to the existing > installation.
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 ?
pgphZB05TlSob.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
