On 12/17/2014 03:02 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > I just had one of my new darknet contacts call me, saying “my Freenet > site does not work anymore. It says the host localhost does not > exist.” > > I was stupefied for a moment, until I realized that my darknet > contact had just restarted the computer for the first time since > installing Freenet. Then I was completely helpless: How do you start > Freenet on Windows? It’s hard enough to explain on GNU/Linux (“go > into a shell and ...”), but on Windows it’s a mystery to me. > > And for me that settles the debate about autostarting Freenet by > default or not: Yes, the installation should by default make Freenet > start automatically on startup. Anything else is a support > nightmare.
The concern I had with this is that Freenet startup is fairly I/O heavy and we don't want to significantly extend users' time between boot and a responsive system. [0] IIRC the Freenet tray is accessible from the start menu, and if people access Freenet through the tray it will start if it is not already running. I assume your contact had bookmarks in their browser? If we want to change the default despite these concerns I'm up for it. I guess it's one fewer thing to be confused by. [0] https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=6287
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