But... Multibit is Java. Java's security problems has made it an instant uninstall item on windows PCs for about a year now. Java exploits are a dime a dozen.

Yes, you can reduce some of the problems by manually disabling the browser plugin, but how many users will do that?

Recommending a fast SPV client as a first wallet - yes, of course. Recommending users open such a huge attack interface on their computers by installing Java - No go. Until Multibit is provided as a compiled binary without a Java dependency, it is DOA.


On 1 July 2013 02:39, Gary Rowe <g.rowe@froot.co.uk> wrote:
I've beefed up the supporting documentation for the website to make it more accessible for developers who wish to contribute. It's a Java application serving HTML.

It can be found here: https://github.com/jim618/multibit-website


On 30 June 2013 16:19, Jim <jim618@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
Yeah "email jim' was never going to work so I have
bumped up MultiBit support (a bit) by:

+ having a dedicated Support page on the website
   https://multibit.org/support.html
   It has fixes and support notes for the most common gotchas.
+ the in-app help also now has a 'Support' section with
   "Troubleshooting' and the commonest gotchas.
   I've also written more help to cover as much as possible.
+ Failing that people are directed first to bitcoin.stackchange.com
   (I have a notification set up for the 'multibit' keyword.
+ Then finally users are directed to the github issues to search
   existing or raise a new issue. Gary and Tim often chip in on there to
   close
   issues down as well as me.



On Sun, Jun 30, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Sounds like we have consensus, Saivann, shall we do it?
>
> I'm also going to ask Theymos again to relax the newbie restrictions
> for the alt client forums. It's probably too hard to get support at
> the moment and "email jim" doesn't scale at all.
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I vote "yes" to have MultiBit replace Bitcoin-Qt as the recommended
> > desktop wallet app. I think most users will be happier with it.
> >
> > If I'm wrong, it is easy to change back.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:
> >
> > Build for Windows Store.
> >
> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bitcoin-development mailing list
> > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:
>
> Build for Windows Store.
>
> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev
> _______________________________________________
> Bitcoin-development mailing list
> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development


--
https://multibit.org    Money, reinvented

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:

Build for Windows Store.

http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev
_______________________________________________
Bitcoin-development mailing list
Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows:

Build for Windows Store.

http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev
_______________________________________________
Bitcoin-development mailing list
Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development