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Re: [tor-bugs] #8641 [TorBrowserButton]: Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP
#8641: Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP
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Reporter: mikeperry | Owner: mikeperry
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_information
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: TorBrowserButton | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords: tbb-usability
Actual Points: | Parent ID: #5752
Points: |
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Comment (by lunar):
Replying to [comment:7 arthuredelstein]:
> Since this patch is part of our effort to isolate circuits by URL bar
domain (#5752), I think a circuit diagram and "New Identity" button per
URL bar domain makes sense. That way you can stay logged into, say,
Twitter, while creating a new identity for the next Google search.
Is this âNew identityâ button going to clear out cookies, history and the
like?
Here is the story from support point of view: people used to be able to
use a âNew identityâ button in Vidalia. It was bad because it actually
only changed Tor circuits, and did not provide a new ''identity'' for web
browsing at all as all the fingerprints were still the same. Then with Tor
Browser 3.5, users were sad because when they clicked âNew identityâ, they
were loosing all their open tabs. So we had to explain that what they had
previously were actually not what they wanted.
I'd rather not go through a third mental model change in less than 2
years.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8641#comment:8>
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