On Friday 14 March 2008 09:19, Michael Rogers wrote: > I thought this thread on or-talk might be relevant to the discussion about > Firefox profiles vs bundled browsers. XB is XeroBank, a new commercial > anonymity service.
Looks like it supports our general conclusions then. Nextgens was working on implementing a firefox profile... as mentioned below, we enable using it concurrently using -no-remote, and it should have a distinct theme, even if right now we don't have the resources to make a custom Freenet theme. > > Cheers, > Michael > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:39:25 -0500 > From: Arrakis <arrakistor at gmail.com> > To: or-talk at freehaven.net > Subject: Re: Tor and Firefox 3 > > Howdy Roger, > > I thought the original question was asking about an alternative > to torbutton. > > No plans to include torbutton in future versions of xB Browser. > The reason we took it out is because it is counter-intuitive > to user behaviors. > > Most users don't want a browser for both "anonymous" and "public" > sessions. As an analogy, you may find people prefer to feed their > dogs with different spoons than they themselves use, and it isn't > for lack of a sanitizing dishwasher. So the user seems to prefer > an entirely different disposable session, instead of > "states" as provided by TorButton. Because our focus is user- > oriented instead of design-oriented, elimination of TorButton was > obvious. > > This conveys many benefits, not the least of which being one > less point of failure and zero learning curve for the user. A > greater benefit is that this promotes and enables concurrent > browser usage so the user does not have to give up the browser > they are used to. I feel this significantly increases the chance > that the user will keep on employing a "secure" browser, rather > than being faced with the choice between between having to integrate > and learn something new, or turning off the "warning lights" > and going back to insecure browsing habits. Wow, poor English. > > However, a significant distinction has to be made so the users > do not confuse the "secure" browser with their normal browser, > so we introduced the XeroBank Modern firefox theme, based on > the defunct Netscape browser. > > More good news, though. At 6.7m download requests, I think we are > now getting a strong idea of the user, and the appropriate threat > model, so it may be time to start writing some papers that > establish the evolutionary principles of xBB. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080314/ccf49cc8/attachment.pgp>
