On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 03:14:31AM -0500, Roger Dingledine wrote: > I'm not comfortable recommending portable firefox yet, due to a problem > that Steven Murdoch found a while ago: when firefox starts up, it hunts > around on your hard drive to see if there are any plugins, and then it > enables those. I think there are some ways to disable this behavior, > but it's not disabled by default... so it's not so easy as just adding > a link. :( The particular feature is "plugin scanning", for which more details can be found here, including how to disable it: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin_scanning I have a half-finished blog post discussing this and the problems it caused for Torpark, so now would probably a good time to complete it. Thanks, Steven. -- w: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/
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