[tor-project] sajolida's report for August 2025

[sajolida via tor-project <tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tails
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Project 165
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- Got our website and documentation ready for Tails 7.0. (#20203)

  Tails 7.0 has been moved forward to September 18.

  I'll continue working on less critical improvements identified through
  the inventory done in July as time allows.

- Reported 3 more issues or possible improvements identified while
  testing more bits of our documentation against Tails 7.0.

- Researched how Windows 11 helps with USB sticks "disappearing" after
  installing from Windows.

  We set a "hidden" GPT flag on the Tails partition to prevent Windows
  and users tempering with it. As a result, after installing Tails on
  Windows, the USB stick disappear from the file browser. People get
  confused and sometimes think that Tails broke their USB stick.

  In Windows 11:

  * The USB stick can still be seen in Settings → Storage → Disks &
    volumes. (#21128)

  * The USB stick can be reformatted to uninstall Tails from the
    Settings as well. Until now, people had to reformat on the Windows
    command line. (#21132)

  * Even a FAT partition placed after the Tails partition appears in the
    file browser. We could provide help in such a partition. (#18770)

- Designed a notification to warn the user when the RAM requirements are
  not met. (#5502)

- Tested the boot speed of Tails 7.0 with zstd compression. (#18655)

  zstd makes the boot 10-15 s faster on recent laptops.

Other Tor products
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- Reported a bug against Tor Browser 15.0a1 in Debian.

  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/44114

- Tested Mullvad Browser and discussed doing usability tests to compare
  the usability of web content, installation process, and core tasks of
  Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser.

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sajolida
The Tor Project — UX Designer

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