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Re: [tor-bugs] #2900 [Tor bundles/installation]: Firefox 4 Tor Browser Bundle does not start on CentOS 5.6 (64Bit)
#2900: Firefox 4 Tor Browser Bundle does not start on CentOS 5.6 (64Bit)
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Reporter: tagnaq | Owner: erinn
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor bundles/installation | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by rransom):
This is probably a result of dynamically linking Firefox/libxul to
whatever libgtk-2.0.so.0 is installed on the host system. libxul.so is
already 14.7 MiB in the Firefox 6 TBB for Linux; we do not have room to
add Gtk to the current bundles.
Here are the options I see:
* Implement and deploy Thandy, and have it install our own Gtk. This
will waste more disk space (and initial download bandwidth) on systems
running non-antique distributions, ''unless'' we automagically detect
whether a suitable Gtk is installed already and only grab another one if
that's not good enough. That, in turn, leaks some information about where
a TBB has been used/installed on a TBB kept on a USB stick.
* Replace Vidalia with something that uses Gtk, and include Gtk in the
bundle. This would probably cost ''way'' too much developer time, would
still waste space in the bundle on non-antique distros, and would probably
make the bundle even bigger than it is now with Qt shipped in it.
Any other ideas?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2900#comment:3>
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