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Re: [tor-talk] To Toggle, or not to Toggle: The End of Torbutton



On 4/11/2011 11:11 PM, Jim wrote:
Mike Perry wrote:
I think we should completely
do away with the toggle model, as well as the entire idea of Torbutton
as a separate piece of user-facing software, and rely solely on the
Tor Browser Bundles, except perhaps with the addition of standalone
Tor+Vidalia binaries for use by experts and relay operators.

 [Snip]

So can anyone bring up any specific issues that may be caused by the
change?

We are collecting these issues as child tickets of this bug:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2880

As an aside, we also are collecting a similar set of issues for the
removal of an HTTP proxy entirely from the tor distribution:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2844
Have no particular problem w/ doing away w/ Torbutton - per se. Two thoughts.

Avg & users will have to be educated in an * easily understandable * way why they must install a 2nd instance of Firefox (browser bundle).

Have noticed the current & past Tor browser bundles are a Firefox ver or 2 behind the most current release from Mozilla. How does / will that affect safety of Tor browser bundle users, in case of serious security updates in latest FX vers, which haven't been incorporated into latest Tor?
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