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Copyright (C) 2001-2009 Privoxy Developers http://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
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and <application>Privoxy's</application> privacy enhancing features
at the same time. While your browser probably lacks some features
&my-app; offers, it should also be able to do some things more
- reliable, for example restricting and suppressing JavaScript.
+ reliably, for example restricting and suppressing JavaScript.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="difficult">
<title>Why is the configuration so complicated?</title>
<para>
- <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder. Those that are
- familiar with some of the underlying concepts, such as regular expression
- syntax, take to it like a fish takes to water. Also, software that tries
- hard to be <quote>user friendly</quote>, often lacks sophistication and
- flexibility. There is always that trade-off there between power vs.
- easy-of-use. Furthermore, anyone is welcome to contribute ideas and
- implementations to enhance &my-app;.
+ <quote>Complicated</quote> is in the eye of the beholder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Privoxy is currently mainly written by and for people who are already
+ familiar with the underlying concepts like regular expressions, HTTP and HTML,
+ or are willing to become familiar with them to be able to get the most
+ out of a powerful and flexible tool such as Privoxy.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ While everybody is expected to be able to get a Privoxy default installation
+ up and running, fine-tuning requires a certain amount of background
+ information and Privoxy's documentation mainly concentrates on the
+ Privoxy-specific parts while only providing references to the rest.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If you or anyone you know has the skills, time and energy to
+ reduce the barrier of entry, please <link linkend="participate">get involved</link>.
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
</sect2>
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<title>In Mac OS X Panther (10.3), images often fail to load and/or I
</para>
</sect2>
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+<sect2 renderas="sect3" id="macosxaccountdeletion">
+<title>I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and now &my-app; has stopped
+ working.</title>
+ <para>
+ The upgrade process to Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9) from an earlier version of OS
+ X deletes all user accounts that are either not part of OS X itself or are
+ not interactive user accounts (ones you log in with). Since, for the sake of
+ security, &my-app; runs as a non-privileged user that is created by its
+ installer (_privoxy), it can no longer start up once that account gets deleted.
+ The solution is to perform a complete uninstall using the supplied
+ <application>uninstall.command</application> script (either back up your
+ configuration files or select to not have the uninstaller remove them when it
+ prompts you) and then reinstall &my-app; using the installer package and merge
+ in your configuration.
+ </para>
+</sect2>
+
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+Revision 2.97 2013/11/07 14:42:02 fabiankeil
+White-space adjustments for the previous commit
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+Revision 2.96 2013/11/06 19:24:18 diem
+Added an entry for the _privoxy user account deletion issue when upgrading to OS X 10.9
+
+Revision 2.95 2013/11/06 16:28:58 fabiankeil
+Rephrase the 'Why is the configuration so complicated?' answer
+
+.. to be slightly less condescending.
+
+Anonymously suggested in #3615122.
+
+Revision 2.94 2013/06/21 14:46:46 fabiankeil
+Link to the SPI homepage instead of the "About SPI" page which no longer exists
+
+Reported by Mark Nelson in #3614557.
+
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