The new TBB 3.0 series is almost ready for its first alpha release!
Here are the major highlights of the 3.0 series:
1. Usability, usability, usability! We've attempted to solve several major usability issues in this series, including:
A. No more Vidalia. The Tor process management is handled by the Tor Launcher extension. If you want the Vidalia features, you can point an existing Vidalia binary at control port 9151 after Tor Browser has launched, and it should still work.
B. The browser now uses a local about:tor homepage instead of check.torproject.org. A local verification against the control port is still performed, to ensure Tor is working, and a link to check.torproject.org is provided from the about:Tor homepage for manual verification as well.
C. For Windows users: an NSIS-based extractor now guides you through the TBB extraction and ensures the extracted bundle ends up on your Desktop, or in a known location chosen by you. Hopefully this will mean no more losing track of the extracted bundle files!
2. The bundles are all under the 25M gmail attachment size limit, so direct email and gettor attachments are once again possible.
3. We now use Gitian to build the bundles. The idea behind Gitian is to allow independent people to take our source code and produce exactly identical binaries on their own. We're not quite at the point where you always get a matching build, but the remaining differences are minor, and within a couple more releases we should have it fully reproducible. For now, we are posting all of the builds for comparison, and you can of course build and compare your own: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
This is awesome! Can you fix a typo in this file? https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions
It says:
[ "2.3.25-8-MacOS", "2.3.25-8-Windows", "2.3.25-8-Linux", "2.3.25-9-Linux", "2.4.12-alpha-2-MacOS", "2.4.12-alpha-2-Windows", "2.4.12-alpha-2-Linux" "3.0-alpha-1-Linux" "3.0-alpha-1-MacOS" "3.0-alpha-1-Windows" ]
There missing commas at the end of the array. I tried updating to 3.0alpha1 with Tor Browser Launcher but it failed parsing RecommendedTBBVersions.
On 06/14/2013 07:39 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
The new TBB 3.0 series is almost ready for its first alpha release!
Here are the major highlights of the 3.0 series:
Usability, usability, usability! We've attempted to solve several major usability issues in this series, including:
A. No more Vidalia. The Tor process management is handled by the Tor Launcher extension. If you want the Vidalia features, you can point an existing Vidalia binary at control port 9151 after Tor Browser has launched, and it should still work.
B. The browser now uses a local about:tor homepage instead of check.torproject.org. A local verification against the control port is still performed, to ensure Tor is working, and a link to check.torproject.org is provided from the about:Tor homepage for manual verification as well.
C. For Windows users: an NSIS-based extractor now guides you through the TBB extraction and ensures the extracted bundle ends up on your Desktop, or in a known location chosen by you. Hopefully this will mean no more losing track of the extracted bundle files!
The bundles are all under the 25M gmail attachment size limit, so direct email and gettor attachments are once again possible.
We now use Gitian to build the bundles. The idea behind Gitian is to allow independent people to take our source code and produce exactly identical binaries on their own. We're not quite at the point where you always get a matching build, but the remaining differences are minor, and within a couple more releases we should have it fully reproducible. For now, we are posting all of the builds for comparison, and you can of course build and compare your own: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +0000, Mike Perry wrote: ...
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
Erm, I used torbrowser-install-3.0-alpha-1_en-US, and it immediately (at double-clicking the 'Start Tor Browser') crashes on this Windows 7 box.
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: firefox.exe Application Version: 17.0.6.0 Application Timestamp: 386d4380 Fault Module Name: d2d1.dll Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.17514 Fault Module Timestamp: 4ce7b7aa Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 0001f3ba OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: 0a9e Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789 Additional Information 3: 0a9e Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Andreas
On 14/06/13 09:39 PM, Mike Perry wrote:
The new TBB 3.0 series is almost ready for its first alpha release!
Here are the major highlights of the 3.0 series:
Usability, usability, usability! We've attempted to solve several major usability issues in this series, including:
A. No more Vidalia. The Tor process management is handled by the Tor Launcher extension. If you want the Vidalia features, you can point an existing Vidalia binary at control port 9151 after Tor Browser has launched, and it should still work.
B. The browser now uses a local about:tor homepage instead of check.torproject.org. A local verification against the control port is still performed, to ensure Tor is working, and a link to check.torproject.org is provided from the about:Tor homepage for manual verification as well.
C. For Windows users: an NSIS-based extractor now guides you through the TBB extraction and ensures the extracted bundle ends up on your Desktop, or in a known location chosen by you. Hopefully this will mean no more losing track of the extracted bundle files!
The bundles are all under the 25M gmail attachment size limit, so direct email and gettor attachments are once again possible.
We now use Gitian to build the bundles. The idea behind Gitian is to allow independent people to take our source code and produce exactly identical binaries on their own. We're not quite at the point where you always get a matching build, but the remaining differences are minor, and within a couple more releases we should have it fully reproducible. For now, we are posting all of the builds for comparison, and you can of course build and compare your own: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
tor-qa mailing list tor-qa@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-qa
Testing: tor-browser-linux64-3.0-alpha-1_en-US.tar.xz Platform: Debian Wheezy Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
TBB Launches successfully - OK Connects to the Tor network - OK Browser toolbars and menus work. Tab dragging works. - OK DNS - No leaks observed (wireshark)
OpenSSL - 1.0.1e
All extensions are present and functional - OK - HTTPS-Everywhere 3.2.2 - NoScript 2.6.6.2 - Torbutton 1.6.0 - TorLauncher 0.2-alpha - PDF Viewer 0.8.1
WebBrowsing works as expected - OK - HTTP, HTTPS, .onion browsing works - HTML5 videos work - ip-check.info - OK - samy.pl/evercookie - OK (new identity clears cookie) - html5demos.com/web-socket - Not Connected / Socket Closed
Other Notes: - No "Docs" folder - Was unable to reproduce the about:tor or proxy issues mentioned by Moritz - Everything is working well, great job to all involved!
Mike Perry:
The new TBB 3.0 series is almost ready for its first alpha release!
Here are the major highlights of the 3.0 series:
[snip]
Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
Hi Mike,
Everything is working as expected, but faster!
The only think that I can see that I'm missing is the network monitor. This is good to easily see whether or not traffic is going through Tor.
Otherwise it is a good improvement.
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