Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 18-jul-2005, at 22:49, Brad Knowles wrote:
...snip...
If you're not a programmer with direct commit access to Mozilla
and Opera, just how exactly do you expect to have any control over
this process?
Hopefully they make this stuff user configurable. This stuff is a lot
like SSL certificates that come with browsers. You can manage those
yourself if you jump through the hoops.
It's not so much that many people will actually do this, but the fact
that users can vote with their feet keeps the people in control down
the chain honest. (Well, more honest than they would be otherwise, at
least.)
You can't have an effictive dictatorship when people are free to move
to the next country.
I can't speak for Opera's implementation, but the Mozilla folks have
made their implementation eminently configurable, using the standard
configuration variable mechanism, with one variable for each domain to
be whitelisted.
That means it can be altered by any of:
* editing the human-readable configuration files
* using the interactive about:config interface to edit the files from
within the browser
* loading a third-party browser extension
-- Neil
