From 2acd1b17ad94536e4a0504087adcd9dc936896ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:33:17 +0200 Subject: docs: a browser is not linked as a device A browser keeps no identity between connections, so a key approved for it is gone by the next one: the guide, the design and the interface no longer offer it. With browser access off, the application and the command-line client open the account's groups; the linking form, shown in the application only, now says "this computer". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/USERGUIDE.md | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md') diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 1c21c80..09d264e 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -212,10 +212,14 @@ a browser can open your groups with your passphrase. With it off — the default an account created in the application — your keys stay on this computer and nothing of them is left on anybody's node. With it on, the application leaves a locked copy on each node, as a browser would. The change reaches each group the -next time it opens. A browser can also be approved from the application for -itself, group by group: the browser shows a linking code (*Get a linking code*), -and you enter it in the application under *Your devices on this node*. That gives -the browser keys of its own without turning browser access on. +next time it opens. With it off, only the application (and the command-line +client) opens your groups: a browser keeps no keys between visits, so it cannot be +linked as a device of its own. + +On another computer, the application opens a group with keys of its own once a +device already linked approves it: the group shows a linking code (*Get a linking +code*), you enter it on that device under *Your devices on this node*, and the +group opens by itself. The application asks in a small window of its own, not in the page, before it hosts a group on this computer, shares a folder you did not pick in its folder @@ -1071,7 +1075,7 @@ fresh invitation code. **"Browser access is off for this account."** The account keeps its keys in the desktop application. Turn browser access on -there (Profile), or approve this browser from it. +there (Profile). **Video says the codec is not supported.** The source codec has no decoder in that browser and transcoding is off, or -- cgit v1.2.3