[tbb-dev] So there apparently is a way to autoupdate firefox on startup on WIndows

Matthew Finkel sysrqb at torproject.org
Thu May 28 23:13:59 UTC 2020


Firefox has behavior that probably you won't want to implement in a
batch file. You could assume that there always exists an incremental
update from the current Tor Browser version to the next version (such as
from 9.0.8 to 9.0.9). This will work for ~6 months, until the current
alpha version becomes the new stable version, and then you would update
your script such that it checks for the new version number (such as
9.0.10 to 9.5, and then 9.5 to 9.5.1).

I think you can create a batch script for the other parts with relative
ease.

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:03:35PM -0700, Keifer Bly wrote:
>    Thanks, what’s going on is I am running a tor bridge from the tor browser
>    bundle. So, could this be made into a batch file to just run on clicking
>    it? Thx very much. I know how to make a batch file, I am just wondering if
>    this will work on auto updating tor with the same code every time.
> 
>     
> 
>    --Keifer
> 
>     
> 
>    From: [1]Matthew Finkel
>    Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2020 2:58 PM
>    To: [2]discussion regarding Tor Browser Bundle development
>    Subject: Re: [tbb-dev] So there apparently is a way to autoupdate firefox
>    on startup on WIndows
> 
>     
> 
>    On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 02:18:31PM -0700, Keifer Bly wrote:
> 
>    >    Hi all,
> 
>    >
> 
>    >    So on doing some research, it is apparently possible to auto update
> 
>    >    firefox on Windows using this script here:
> 
>    >
> 
>    >   
>    [1]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29768157/silently-updating-firefox-via-command-prompt-windows
> 
>    >
> 
>    >    Could this also be used to auto update tor browser? Thanks very much.
> 
>    >
> 
>    >    --Keifer
> 
>     
> 
>    Sure, you can find instructions on the Tor wiki:
> 
>    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Updating#ManuallyApplyingMARUpdate
> 
>     
> 
>    But you probably won't have much fun doing it.
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