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Re: [tor-bugs] #6096 [TorBrowserButton]: Perform TBB version check async on new tab?
#6096: Perform TBB version check async on new tab?
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Reporter: mikeperry | Owner: mikeperry
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: TorBrowserButton | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by mikeperry):
Yes, there are lots of rocks and lots of hard places to get stuck between
here. We're also trying to perfect a solution to update security known to
be sub-optimal by its very nature. Every choice will suck. We need to
decide which set of choices sucks the least, for the least effort.
I think the popup idea is out, unless we can make it look clearly like
something you can trust. That seems hard, especially when the thing is
ultimately just sending you to a web page to download code. But maybe
we're already crossed the Rubicon on that with check.tp.o itself, so it's
not really marginally worse?
We can clearly at least do the check more often, perhaps on every new tab.
Or do we not like disclosing that new tabs are being opened to the exit
node/network?
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6096#comment:4>
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