Obey Arthur Liu wrote:
> Matthew Toseland a ?crit :
>
>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 10:42, Jano wrote:
>>
>>> This plus a torbutton-like extension would be nice.
>>>
>>>
>> What would you suggest that any such extension would do?
>>
>>
> Hijack ahead.
>
> I read the thread so far and I think that the extension solution is the
> most viable.
> * Firefox profiles has proven unstable. It clearly has never been
> designed for shipping "custom navigation profiles".
> * Hacking javascript handling into the html code involves tampering with
> the data, which is not good. I'm not sure it would help either. What
> would it do ? Rewrite the DOM-tree asynchronously ? That would
> fundamentally be like rewriting part of Firefox in Javascript (!).
> * Changing the behavior of the http server to make Firefox behave
> differently seems contorted and unreliable. I mean, make the server
> behave *very* oddly to influence the client into working differently ?
> * Shipping a portable Firefox would be problematic in regard of updates,
> size, code to maintain.. Would work under Linux though (compile it all
> static and patch it with custom profile paths...) but we'll probably
> have to call it freefox or icefreeweaselnet or...
>
> An extension would solve most problems in a manageable way
I'll just point out here that an extension would be rewriting part of
Firefox in Javascript even more so than hacking "javascript handling
into the html code".
