I'm about a year behind on reading this list, so in the event that my question has been addressed during that time, please forgive me for skipping ahead to the present. In the past week, I have *finally* managed to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.2 to 9.2 and am now slogging through the rebuilding of all my installed ports. The ancient version of firefox that I had been stuck with due to later versions' memory allocation bugs now no longer works. For the moment, I have built firefox 26, but because there is no longer a version of torbutton to be found for love or money from anywhere I'd trust, I'd really like to install something safer than just firefox with NoScript, AdblockPlus, Better Privacy, and a couple of other add-ons. The tor project's web site still has no browser available for the {Dragonfly,Free,Net,Open}BSD, so what I'd like to know is which browser and security add-ons can the tor community recommend for use with tor? Thanks in advance for any clues. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:43:04AM -0600, bennett@sdf.org wrote 1.8K bytes in 0 lines about: : and a couple of other add-ons. The tor project's web site still has no : browser available for the {Dragonfly,Free,Net,Open}BSD, so what I'd like to : know is which browser and security add-ons can the tor community recommend : for use with tor? Tor Browser works fine in FreeBSD 9 and 10. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475
andrew@torproject.is wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:43:04AM -0600, bennett@sdf.org wrote 1.8K bytes in 0 lines about: : and a couple of other add-ons. The tor project's web site still has no : browser available for the {Dragonfly,Free,Net,Open}BSD, so what I'd like to : know is which browser and security add-ons can the tor community recommend : for use with tor?
Tor Browser works fine in FreeBSD 9 and 10.
Thanks, Andrew. However, looking through the choices in https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/3.5.1/ the only BSD-type versions I see as the Mac OS X versions. My past experiences with attempting to build Mac OS X programs under FreeBSD have been uniformly bad. Would you please direct me to a version that builds correctly under FreeBSD 9.2? Which version have you seen work fine under FreeBSD 9 and/or 10? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:20:46AM -0600, bennett@sdf.org wrote 1.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : the only BSD-type versions I see as the Mac OS X versions. My past : experiences with attempting to build Mac OS X programs under FreeBSD have : been uniformly bad. Would you please direct me to a version that builds : correctly under FreeBSD 9.2? Which version have you seen work fine under : FreeBSD 9 and/or 10? I don't build it. I just download the linux 64-bit version and run it. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475
andrew@torproject.is wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:20:46AM -0600, bennett@sdf.org wrote 1.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : the only BSD-type versions I see as the Mac OS X versions. My past : experiences with attempting to build Mac OS X programs under FreeBSD have : been uniformly bad. Would you please direct me to a version that builds : correctly under FreeBSD 9.2? Which version have you seen work fine under : FreeBSD 9 and/or 10?
I don't build it. I just download the linux 64-bit version and run it.
Do you have to tag it with brandelf(1)? BTW, I forgot to mention I'm running i386, not amd64, although I plan to (try to) switch to amd64 in the "near future". Assuming that the tor browser is still a fork off of firefox from a few years ago, then I'd still like to build it using local tuning. firefox is such a CPU hog that I'd really like to get the most out of compiler optimization of it. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
Assuming that the tor browser is still a fork off of firefox from a few years ago, then I'd still like to build it using local tuning. firefox is such a CPU hog that I'd really like to get the most out of compiler optimization of it.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git... You are in for some fun. :) But before you get too angry at Mike, read through https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/cyberpeace to see why it's the way it is. (Also, why is this thread on tor-relays? It seems to have nothing to do with running relays.) --Roger
Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:34:49AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
Assuming that the tor browser is still a fork off of firefox from a few years ago, then I'd still like to build it using local tuning. firefox is such a CPU hog that I'd really like to get the most out of compiler optimization of it.
https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/blob/HEAD:/git...
Thanks much for those references. I will definitely take a look through them before attempting to build the browser.
You are in for some fun. :)
Oh, joy! :-<
But before you get too angry at Mike, read through https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/cyberpeace to see why it's the way it is.
Okay. I'll read that, too.
(Also, why is this thread on tor-relays? It seems to have nothing to do with running relays.)
Because I'm still subscribed to it and to the tor-announce list. I dropped off the tor-talk list two or three years ago due to the volume. And I didn't think discussions would be viable on the tor-announce list. :-> Anyway, thanks for the help. I've stopped the double logging and also repaired the rc.d script for now. With luck I'll figure out how to get tor to build properly again without the ports tree in time for the next time I want to upgrade. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************
On 28/01/2014 11:04 PM, andrew@torproject.is wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:20:46AM -0600, bennett@sdf.org wrote 1.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : the only BSD-type versions I see as the Mac OS X versions. My past : experiences with attempting to build Mac OS X programs under FreeBSD have : been uniformly bad. Would you please direct me to a version that builds : correctly under FreeBSD 9.2? Which version have you seen work fine under : FreeBSD 9 and/or 10?
I don't build it. I just download the linux 64-bit version and run it.
I couldn't get TBB running on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE i386 a few months back due to Linux lib dependencies, IIRC. I opted to use Midori instead, though browser printing was considerably distinct. The stock Linux package worked out of the box for you? -- bsdbox.co
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:04:53PM +0000, andrew@torproject.is wrote 0.7K bytes in 0 lines about: : I don't build it. I just download the linux 64-bit version and run it. Ok, I tried 3.5 today and it fails, as you said. I opened a ticket and will update progress there, https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10763 -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475
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