On Saturday 14 November 2009 21:19:43 Zero3 wrote: > Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > On Saturday 14 November 2009 16:02:11 Matthew Toseland wrote: > >> On Saturday 14 November 2009 17:19:15 Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> For a test I installed freenet on a windows 7 box. All went well. The > >>> new installation process is pretty simple. One small bone to pick. The > >>> first use wizard tells you NOT to use the same browser for freenet as you > >>> use normally - fine. However there does not seem to be a way to > >>> configure 'Launch Freenet' from the systray to use your prefered browser. > >>> I want to set it to use chrome... > >> It *does* use Chrome if available, in incognito mode. Ask Zero3 why it > >> isn't working. > >>> This should be easy but it does not seem to be... > > > > Think the problem is that I installed chrome after freenet and it _is_ what > > I want freenet to use. I see no option to tell freenet to switch to it. > > Thanks for the feedback :) > > Here is the deal: At the moment, there is a great difference in security > between the major browsers. Especially their incognito mode support. For > that reason, the launcher will dictate the choice of browser for the > user by trying to find the most secure one available on every launch. > > If you install Chrome, the launcher should pick it up at next launch. > More specifically, it will look for the registry string > "InstallLocation" under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER, > Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Google Chrome". Can > you check if you have that key?
Does not exist. I installed the 64 bit version. The uninstall entry is at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Unistall\Google Chrome > The fproxy message is a bit old. It was made at a time where the plan > was to install a secondary browser/browser profile for the user, and use > that one solely for Freenet. As browsers in the meantime have started to > incorporate incognito modes, we are moving towards using those instead > (and IMHO, it is a much better solution. Last time we tried the profile > stuff - with FireFox - we failed miserably). > > I'm surprised you were able to install on Win7. I haven't tested the > installer on Win7 myself yet, and I've seen reports of installations > failures on Win7. It just worked out of the box? Aside from the chrome issue it worked as expected. <grin> Ed Tomlinson _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
