[tor-bugs] #2848 [Tor bundles/installation]: Ship TBB-Firefox as a separately downloadable package

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#2848: Ship TBB-Firefox as a separately downloadable package
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 Reporter:  rransom                   |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
 Keywords:                            |         Parent:  #2844
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:       
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 I and other Tor users will want to use Tor without Polipo, without using a
 Tor Browser Bundle.  There are several reasons to want to do this:

  * to avoid having to install extensions in and configure a new TBB every
 time a new version is released;
  * to avoid having to wait for another Tor client to start before running
 a web browser;
  * to make it easier to browse through a custom Tor compiled from Git.

 I'm sure there are other good reasons for this that I haven't thought of.

 We need to provide our patched versions of Firefox as separately
 downloadable binary packages, particularly for Windows (when we start
 building a patched Firefox on Windows) and MacOS, because building Firefox
 is much harder on those OSes than on Linux.

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