Why does automatic authentication require a custom browser?  Client certificates work well for this function in ordinary web applications (assuming a properly configured server). As to collaborative browsing, that use case should be balanced against all the available applications that having a standard Firefox enables painlessly.   Where is a user story of collaborative browsing (as contrasted to a shared bookmark repository) documented? <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Martin Langhoff <<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <<a href="mailto:cscott@laptop.org">cscott@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > I'd rather see us just give up on Browse and ship and appropriately > configured Firefox.  I just can't see OLPC devoting enough developer Not so fast! The XS deliverables need a custom browser on the XO for reasons we were discussing last Thursday :-) If we want  - automagic authentication with the XS  - collaborative browsing (which can get better than what we have) we need a custom, bespoke, forked, evil, lasers-on-sharkies-heads browser. Call it Betty if you want, but we need it. m --  <a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>  <a href="mailto:martin@laptop.org">martin@laptop.org</a> -- School Server Architect  - ask interesting questions  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first  - <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Devel@lists.laptop.org">Devel@lists.laptop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck -- George Carlin