03/16/2012 08:38 PM, anonym:
> Hi,
>
> As promised feature/unsafe-browser now implements an unsafe,
> non-anonymous browser [1] (which is intended for captive portal
> login/registration).
The branch feature/unsafe-browser has now reached potential production
state and has been merged into devel and experimental for inclusion in
the next Tails major release. If you have the possibility to build
Tails, please do so (preferably build experimental as it also contains
some firewall rule changes) and test the Unsafe Browser feature so any
remaining bugs or other issues can be identified. Testing behind real
world captive portals is highly valuable.
Here's a list of what to expect from the Unsafe Browser (if something
else happens it's a bug and you should post about it here):
* User documentation can be found on the local wiki through:
Documentation -> First steps -> Logging in to captive portals.
Please read this first! Possibly even before reading the rest of
this list as a sanity check of the docs.
* The Unsafe browser is started through: Applications -> Internet ->
Unsafe Browser, which should have a warning triangle as icon.
* On start a warning is thrown which requires verification.
* Both start and shutdown can be pretty slow, as notifications will
tell you.
* The start page contain yet another warning, which has no links
(neither external nor internal).
* Only one instance of the Unsafe Browser can be run at a time.
* It has a red theme so it can be easily distinguished from the
normal, anonymous browser (this is disabled when running with
'winxp' on the kernel command line, i.e. when Windows camouflage is
activated).
* It has neither FoxyProxy nor Torbutton installed (and no proxy set,
obviously).
* It has no bookmarks.
* It has English Wikipedia as the default search engine in the
Navigation Toolbar. This is used as a visual reminder of that
this is the Unsafe Browser (mostly for when run in Windows
camouflage mode since the red theme is disabled). Another such
reminder is the lack of Torbutton's onion icon.
* The Unsafe Browser always starts in a completely fresh state; the
history and all settings should be reset on start.
Cheers!
