The new TBB 3.0 series is almost ready for its first alpha release!
Here are the major highlights of the 3.0 series:
1. Usability, usability, usability! We've attempted to solve several
major usability issues in this series, including:
A. No more Vidalia. The Tor process management is handled by the Tor
Launcher extension. If you want the Vidalia features, you can
point an existing Vidalia binary at control port 9151 after Tor
Browser has launched, and it should still work.
B. The browser now uses a local about:tor homepage instead of
check.torproject.org. A local verification against the control port
is still performed, to ensure Tor is working, and a link to
check.torproject.org is provided from the about:Tor homepage
for manual verification as well.
C. For Windows users: an NSIS-based extractor now guides you through
the TBB extraction and ensures the extracted bundle ends up on your
Desktop, or in a known location chosen by you. Hopefully this
will mean no more losing track of the extracted bundle files!
2. The bundles are all under the 25M gmail attachment size limit, so
direct email and gettor attachments are once again possible.
3. We now use Gitian to build the bundles. The idea behind Gitian is to
allow independent people to take our source code and produce exactly
identical binaries on their own. We're not quite at the point where
you always get a matching build, but the remaining differences are
minor, and within a couple more releases we should have it fully
reproducible. For now, we are posting all of the builds for
comparison, and you can of course build and compare your own:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/gitian/README.build
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to
post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
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Mike Perry
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