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Rationale behind the move to Disconnect Search?
by intrigeri 04 May '15

04 May '15

Hi, we're in the process of upgrading Tor Browser to 4.5 in Tails, and I noticed the migration to Disconnect Search as the default search engine. That's the kind of changes that we often have to justify in face of users and auditors, but I wasn't able to find the rationale behind this decision on the corresponding ticket [1]. I see the release announcement [2] says: > Disconnect provides private Google search results to Tor users > without Captchas or bans. And below, Georg commented: > Startpage was not happy with our traffic and showed sometimes > CAPTCHAs. Disconnect on the other hand approached us with respect to > search engine traffic and donated some money. So, just to clarify: is that the entire rationale behind this move? [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14490 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-45-released Cheers, -- intrigeri

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automatic updates for add-ons in Tor Browser
by sajolida 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hi, I'm part of the people working on Tails and I have a doubt about Tor Browser that I couldn't solve by reading your design document. Are automatic updates performed on additional extensions that the user might install in Tor Browser? The design document only mentions that "addon updates" are proxied as well which might mean that they still happen but it's not explicit. According to Giorgio Maone, a regular Firefox checks for updates of the extensions once per day but we were not sure whether Tor Browser prevents this for some reason. -- sajolida

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Chrome Document on Client Identification
by Tom Ritter 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Via my friend Aaron, Google at some point published the below document on client fingerprinting. Somewhat similar to the TBB Design Document. https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mecha… -tom

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Tor Browser meeting next Monday?
by Georg Koppen 06 Apr '15

06 Apr '15

Hi, this is something I forgot to bring up at our last meeting but at least here (and I know in a bunch of other countries) next Monday is holiday. Although I'll probably work on that day I won't be able to attend the meeting. I am fine if the meeting is happening without me but if that would affect more of the team it might be better to reschedule it. Opinions? Georg

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Localized search plugins for the Tor Browser in Tails
by anonym 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Hi, In Tails we use the same Tor Browser installation for all locales, and put some localized search plugins into `distribution/searchplugins/locale`. However, those search plugins are not used. Instead of repeating myself, I'm gonna point you to our ticket about this: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9146 So, do you have any idea why the Tor Browser is ignoring our localized search plugins? Any pointers on where to look further when debugging this? Feel free to comment either on the ticket, or in this thread if it suites you better. Cheers!

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Upgrade path for MacOS users?
by Mike Perry 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

I was reviewing the 32bit end-of-life MacOS post, and noticed that it states that all Mac users (32 bit or 64 bit) will have to manually update from 4.0 to 4.5: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/end-life-plan-tor-browser-32-bit-macs Is this still the case? Are there any workarounds we can do for this? Do we have the ability to send out the 64 bit full MAR for all OSX users on 10.7 or newer (who should all be 64 bit, or 64 bit capable)? If we release a 4.0.7 just for the remaining 10.6 users, can we check for 64 bit support in some way? According to this support page, it seems the official way to check is to actually inspect the CPU model name: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3696 Oddly, it also sounds like 10.6 machines that have 64bit-capable CPUs can run 64bit apps even if the kernel is 32bit: http://appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/28/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_… It seems as though we may also be able to recommend that 10.6 users can try to boot into 64 bit mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT3773 But I've seen reports that switching kernels like this can result in buggy operation in comments on this post: http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/07/how-to-tell-if-youre-running-the-32-bit-or-6… -- Mike Perry

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TBB forensic analysis
by jack bloom 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

hi all, I've read Runa's forensic analysis of the TBB (https://research.torproject.org/techreports/tbb-forensic-analysis-2013-06-2…) and I'm currently redoing the analysis of the current TBB. I'm more or less following what runa did (plus ram dump/hibernation file), I was wondering if you have any suggestions, ideas or any other kind of input on the subject. I asked on #tor and they suggested to say something here. jb

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EU Summer Time Shift
by Mike Perry 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Apparently it's now Summer Time in the EU. This means that the TBB meeting is now one hour later there. Does this cause a problem for anyone? If we can keep the meeting at 19:00 UTC year-round, that may simplify dealing with this daylight savings nonsense, but I also realize that this may be late (9pm?) for most of Europe. Does anyone have a problem with 19:00 UTC tomorrow? Should we move it back to 18:00 UTC? -- Mike Perry

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Re: [tbb-dev] [Tails-dev] Fwd: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox ESR 31.5.2 release
by Georg Koppen 21 Mar '15

21 Mar '15

intrigeri: > Hi, > > seems like we should start preparing an emergency point-release... > what are you folks availability or lack thereof to prepare it, test > it, and get it out of the door? I have not had a chance to talk to Mike yet but my plan it to prepare an emergency Tor Browser release with 31.5.3. I hope I have everything ready to get the build going today. Georg

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Update on TBB roadmap
by Isabela 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Hello everyone. In Valencia dev meeting we did an exercise to help create a roadmap (1yr) for the different Tor projects and organizational work. I've collected those roadmaps and published them here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps (I will be sending a similar email to the other dev and org teams as well. ) The folks in this list should look at the roadmaps for *Tor Browser**,* specially for the tables (specially for March and April) and fill up the empty cells for: * sponsor -> if work is related to a particular sponsor * who -> person(s) who the task should be assigned to * tickets -> ticket(s) related to the task (please create them if appropriate) * date -> estimation dates are always good :) Let me know if you have questions, here is a direct link to Tor Browser roadmap: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/TorBrowser thanks everyone, Isabela

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