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Upcoming versions of Firefox will run code in a different process from content. This may affect extensions - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox We should investigate whether Perspectives is affected and see if we'll...

internal

If we want to easily port Perspectives to multiple platforms (like Chrome, Android, or Thunderbird) it would be very useful if we knew exactly what functionality was needed from each...

internal

Rather than letting a bunch of potential errors come through, or having to go spot and fix all of the '==' uses by hand, let's hook up JSLint - https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint...

internal

Eloquently put by JSLint - https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSLint: > The place to express yourself in programming is in the quality of your ideas and > the efficiency of their execution. .. Conforming...

internal

Currently queries are sent to notaries using unencrypted http traffic. Messages are still cryptographically signed and verified using the notary's public key, so they are guaranteed to be correct and...

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privacy

Let's copyedit the explanation of how the CA model works and how Perspectives is different, so it's easy for non-technical people to understand. Some diagrams would go a long way...

documentation

If a service/site is in the whitelist it should use a different icon than the green 'good.png' used for approved sites that pass quorum, so you can quickly and easily...

ui

If the user clicks the 'Force Notary Check' option I think we should definitely always send a query, regardless of what other settings or conditions are true. If the user...

ui

Sometimes it's strange to see most of the notaries show green results but still have overall quorum not reached. Perhaps we should display the "X/Total" number of notaries that agreed...

ui

There are several strings that contain the word "Firefox". But Perspectives also supports SeaMonkey, and we want to expand to support even more browsers in the future. So having these...

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