On Friday 23 January 2009 01:53, [Anon] Anon User > wrote: > -----BEGIN TYPE III ANONYMOUS MESSAGE----- > Message-type: plaintext > > In Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > >>> > > The real solution to browser history stealing is simply to use a separate > >>> > > browser for Freenet than the one you use for the wider web. We now warn > > users > >>> > > about this at the beginning of the first time wizard. > >> > > >> > ^^ That is one more reason for the suggestion of a separate UI that I > >> > made on freenet.uservoice.com. > > > > This is now largely accepted in the development team as a long-term goal. > > saces is working on something like this based on wxWindows. However, a > > dedicated browser/client (somewhere in between probably, e.g. there is no > > point in converting all the config pages to tabbed dialogs) would likely be a > > significant amount of work and require a significant amount of maintenance. > > So it's not a priority for 0.8.0. > > I hope that as Freenet moves to this new UI, somewhere in the days 0.8+++, that > plain old browser support is not discontinued. There's plenty of us who know how > to be secure with a browser and don't mind doing things like using a separate > profile for the purpose with tighter settings.
And with various "features" turned off, and with lots of connections enabled, and so on. There have been some question marks over whether it is possible to load an image from an external domain and get a callback when it is loaded - if so, it may be possible to time fetches of specific sites from javascript on an unrelated site. Meaning running a web browser on a system with access to fproxy is dangerous. I haven't tested this, maybe you'd like to? > > I think there's a lot of use who prefer to stay with that functionality rather > than a shiny new whiz-bang UI. Fproxy will still be available as a plugin in any case. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20090124/f5d926d9/attachment.pgp>