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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2015 9:20 PM, iratemonkey
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only have time to reply back to your reply on part 3 tonight,
but it is not a 'bug', this seems to be done on purpose.<br>
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> 3) Why is the little orion icon missing in TOR 4.0.4 bundle
for Windows? Now <br>
> Tor bundle looks exactly the same as regular Firefox and
Firefox GUI looks <br>
> like Chrome. There is very little visual differentiation
left and this is a <br>
> bit of a concern that I might accidentally cross
containmenate. <br>
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So, I really meant, in the system tray (assuming this is
Windows), that little Onion router icon (the one that turns
yellow, green) is gone.... <br>
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I think the icon you are referring to is actually part of Vidalia.
It's removal from TBB has been lamented by many because it had a lot
of nice features that are now missing from the bundle. There is a
stand alone version of Vidalia that, for now, gets back much of the
missing functionality.<br>
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the early versions of TOR ( I still use this one I customized
back in 2010 - five years ago :
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/securitytor/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/securitytor/</a> )<br>
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Since the early versions of TOR, each new version has been from
the interface/UI standpoint more and more dumped down... almost
like way of the Windows 8 "metro" interface, flat design tiles,
the whole world moving to cloud first, mobile first, and all
that good stuff...<br>
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The goodness of that stuff is open to debate.<br>
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has started copying Google's Chrome with the massive
iteration/upgrade numerical versioning inflation counts, and
installing a maintenence as a service forcing and deepthroating
everyone to immediately upgrade upgrade upgrade...<br>
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Problem is this, now Firefox has gone like full on google, Ads
in the browser itself all about monetization, etc.... <br>
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This is why for non-Tor use, I'm sticking with Firefox 28.0 and
will never move to the newer ad infested versions and the change
of interface GUI that looks almost identical to Chrome.<br>
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it is many steps backwards in my opinion.... <br>
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And the dumbing down of TOR, at least from the UI/interface
perspective is not good. <br>
Sure I'll still use slax/tails, but Tor bundle for Windows by
default is getting worse and worse.<br>
prime example, why the heck is noscript turned off by default
on TOR, and flash/silverlight/javascript not even blocked? <br>
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I also wish the TBB developers had enough respect for the users to
let them use the product as they see fit.<br>
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