On Monday 11 Jul 2011 15:45:00 Ian Clarke wrote: > Can we detect if Firefox is already running, and if it is - ask the user's > permission before relaunching it in Private Browsing mode?
Perhaps (I suspect it would take most of a day to implement this given we're using AHK); but what if they say no? And that's just for Windows ... On unix/mac we'd probably be able to do something but we can only count on having ps... > > 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 -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110711/422e832f/attachment.pgp>
