Pier Angelo Vendrame pushed to branch main at The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build

Commits: c37f7e92 by Pier Angelo Vendrame at 2024-05-28T16:45:15+02:00 Bug 41150: Do not check for SSE2 in the Windows installer anymore.

Tor Browser requires SSE2, so a long time ago we added a check on the Windows installer to warn users in case their machine did not support this instruction set. However, Windows 7 is the minimum OS we support, and from 2018 it also requires SSE2. Moreover, 14.0 will require Windows 10.

We are going to add translations for the installer, and at this point it makes more sense to remove this check, rather than asking translators to translate a messages nobody will see in a few months from now.

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1 changed file:

- projects/browser/windows-installer/common.nsh

Changes:

===================================== projects/browser/windows-installer/common.nsh ===================================== @@ -66,15 +66,6 @@ Function CheckRequirements SetErrorLevel 1 Quit ${EndIf} - - ; Don't install on systems that don't support SSE2. The parameter value of - ; 10 is for PF_XMMI64_INSTRUCTIONS_AVAILABLE which will check whether the - ; SSE2 instruction set is available. - System::Call "kernel32::IsProcessorFeaturePresent(i 10)i .R7" - ${If} "$R7" == "0" - MessageBox MB_OK|MB_ICONSTOP "${PROJECT_NAME} requires a processor with SSE2 support." - Quit - ${EndIf} FunctionEnd

Function CheckIfTargetDirectoryExists

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