[tor-reports] Pearl Crescent status report for December 2013

[Mark Smith]

Tor-related work that Mark and Kathy did in December:
  * Assisted with TBB 3.5 / ESR24-based browser testing and
    loose ends (including some help with standalone Vidalia).

  * Helped update Torbutton for Firefox ESR 24.  We made
    contributions to various tickets (see ** at the end of
    this report).

  * Started to work on pluggable transport support for
    Tor Launcher, e.g.,
    "Make a "Use Default Bridges" Radio button in the Bridge UI"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10418

  * Worked on various Tor Launcher "polish" issues that were
    reported immediately before and after the TBB 3.5 release
    (see *** at the end of this report).  There is more work to
    be done.

  * Made a little more progress on ticket 4234:
      "Investigate the Firefox update process"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4234
    Our goal is to use a patched version of Firefox's software update
    mechanism to make it a lot easier and less painful for end-users
    to keep TBB up-to-date.  Remaining work to do for phase 1:
       - Finish integration with the TBB 3.x build process.
       - Ensure that the updater works with PT bundles.
       - Create a process to generate MAR files when new releases of
         TBB are generated.
       - Address other deployment details such as where the TBB
         update service will be hosted, update service certificates, etc.
       - Get patches reviewed and committed.

  * Landed a fix for ticket 10201:
      "Firefox ESR 24 sometimes hangs during exit on Mac OS"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10201

Ticket details:
** Torbutton related tickets that we worked on:

   "Replace deprecated getOriginatingURI() method in Torbutton"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8167

    "The nsIPluginTag Interface was changed, Torbutton is broken..."
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9454

    "Many changes to private browsing code of Firefox..."
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9570

    "Private Browsing Mode data not properly cleared by New Identity"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10352

    "Please do not create strings untranslatable with Transifex"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10398

    "torbutton 1.6.5.2 says Tor is down when accessing remote tor..."
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10500

*** Tor Launcher related tickets that we worked on:

    "Adblock Plus extension interferes with Tor Launcher dialog"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10147

    "when i choose 'connect', old window is still there but unusable"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10247

    "TBB 3.0rc1 fails to start Tor Browser on restart"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10248

    "Tor Launcher (TBB 3.5 build 5) hang on quit"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10382

    "TorLauncher UI seems to split bridge fingerprints onto a new line"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10384

    "bad bridge fingerprint causes "DONE" error to be displayed"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10431

    "Allow TBB 3.x to run multiple times in parallel"
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10439

-- 
Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent, LLC