In my spare time I've been working on a way to make the Tor Browser Bundle easier to use for GNU/Linux users. I've mostly been talking about it with other people on tor-talk and in this bug: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236 I decided to write Tor Browser Launcher, a completely separate program that's in charge or adding a "Tor Browser" .desktop file (so you can open it from your desktop environment's menu), downloads the latest version for you, verifies it's signature (making it more secure than how much GNU/Linux users get TBB), and installs it in your home directory. I think that Tor Browser Launcher can get in Debian and Ubuntu. I just finished a first version of it. The code is here: https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher And there are screenshots here: http://imgur.com/a/Mvpwl You can read details about how it works on my latest comment on that bug: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5236#comment:32 Before trying to get it in Debian I'd like to make it so it doesn't need to be updated each time TBB is updated. There are more details in the ticket, but this would require Tor to maintain a file on https://www.torproject.org/ that has the current version number of TBB in it and a timestamp, and possibly digital signature of this file too. Do you think this is doable? I also want to get it localized into all the languages TBB is localized into. Any thoughts or suggestions? -- Micah Lee https://twitter.com/micahflee
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