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On 3/10/2015 9:20 PM, iratemonkey
wrote:
I
only have time to reply back to your reply on part 3 tonight,
but it is not a 'bug', this seems to be done on purpose.
> 3) Why is the little orion icon missing in TOR 4.0.4 bundle
for Windows? Now
> Tor bundle looks exactly the same as regular Firefox and
Firefox GUI looks
> like Chrome. There is very little visual differentiation
left and this is a
> bit of a concern that I might accidentally cross
containmenate.
So, I really meant, in the system tray (assuming this is
Windows), that little Onion router icon (the one that turns
yellow, green) is gone....
I think the icon you are referring to is actually part of Vidalia.
It's removal from TBB has been lamented by many because it had a lot
of nice features that are now missing from the bundle. There is a
stand alone version of Vidalia that, for now, gets back much of the
missing functionality.
Since
the early versions of TOR ( I still use this one I customized
back in 2010 - five years ago :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/securitytor/ )
Since the early versions of TOR, each new version has been from
the interface/UI standpoint more and more dumped down... almost
like way of the Windows 8 "metro" interface, flat design tiles,
the whole world moving to cloud first, mobile first, and all
that good stuff...
The goodness of that stuff is open to debate.
Firefox
has started copying Google's Chrome with the massive
iteration/upgrade numerical versioning inflation counts, and
installing a maintenence as a service forcing and deepthroating
everyone to immediately upgrade upgrade upgrade...
Problem is this, now Firefox has gone like full on google, Ads
in the browser itself all about monetization, etc....
This is why for non-Tor use, I'm sticking with Firefox 28.0 and
will never move to the newer ad infested versions and the change
of interface GUI that looks almost identical to Chrome.
it is many steps backwards in my opinion....
And the dumbing down of TOR, at least from the UI/interface
perspective is not good.
Sure I'll still use slax/tails, but Tor bundle for Windows by
default is getting worse and worse.
prime example, why the heck is noscript turned off by default
on TOR, and flash/silverlight/_javascript_ not even blocked?
I also wish the TBB developers had enough respect for the users to
let them use the product as they see fit.
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