Can we detect if Firefox is already running, and if it is - ask the user's permission before relaunching it in Private Browsing mode?
Ian. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote: > Ideas? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mantis Bug Tracker <mantis at osprey.vm.bytemark.co.uk> > To: toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 01:56:07 +0100 > Subject: [Freenet 0005209]: Freenet forces firefox into private browsing > mode > > The following issue has been SUBMITTED. > ====================================================================== > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=5209 > ====================================================================== > Reported By: somebody > Assigned To: toad > ====================================================================== > Project: Freenet > Issue ID: 5209 > Category: website > Reproducibility: always > Severity: major > Priority: urgent > Status: assigned > ====================================================================== > Date Submitted: 2011-07-11 01:56 BST > Last Modified: 2011-07-11 01:56 BST > ====================================================================== > Summary: Freenet forces firefox into private browsing > mode > Description: > I installed freenet and it opened a private browsing window. Doing this > closed > all of my existing windows without warning, breaking downloads in progress > and > loosing all of my tabs (which sadly contained some important data which is > now > destroyed forever). > > For my uses, this forced private browsing mode horribly breaks things. I DO > NOT > WANT PRIVATE BROWSING. > > I spent about an hour going through every single advanced configuration > option > and I can not find any possible way to turn this functionality off. > > I don't even need it to open a browser window, I can do that myself if I > have > to, but double clicking the icon always opens a browser window and destroys > whatever I already have open. > > Not having any options to control this is a poor design choice. > ====================================================================== > > Issue History > Date Modified Username Field Change > ====================================================================== > 2011-07-11 01:56 somebody New Issue > 2011-07-11 01:56 somebody Status new => assigned > 2011-07-11 01:56 somebody Assigned To => toad > ====================================================================== > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke Personal blog: http://blog.locut.us/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110711/51d0d501/attachment.html>
