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[tor-bugs] #27028 [Applications/Tor Browser]: UX: Indicate current download progress
#27028: UX: Indicate current download progress
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Reporter: huertanix | Owner: tbb-team
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: Medium | Milestone: Tor: unspecified
Component: Applications/Tor Browser | Version: Tor: unspecified
Severity: Normal | Keywords: download ux
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**Issue**:
While training journalists on the use of SecureDrop, which heavily uses
Tor Browser as its primary interface, users consistently confuse the arrow
flash animation over the hamburger menu in the Tor Browser as a sign that
the download they started has ''completed'', rather than simply having
been ''started.'' They panic when a partial file they prematurely copied
fails to open, and someone ends up having to make a house call to let them
know the file wasn't finished downloading.
**Proposal**:
Vanilla Firefox makes a nominal effort to address this with an arrow
button appearing in the toolbar aside from the hamburger menu which
indicates download progress. Including this existing Firefox feature into
the Tor Browser would be a useful first step, however, other browsers have
solved the potential for this kind of user confusion by showing individual
download progress in a new toolbar. Copying what Brave Browser does (see
image here: https://imgur.com/LZU7hAo), for example, would much more
effectively help prevent confusion on the user's end and should be
implemented in Tor Browser, then pushed upstream to Firefox.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27028>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
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