[tor-bugs] #5709 [Tor bundles/installation]: Tor Browser Bundle build for Android

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#5709: Tor Browser Bundle build for Android
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 Reporter:  arma                      |          Owner:  erinn                      
     Type:  project                   |         Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:  Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:                             
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 Mike thinks we're not that far from being able to try a Tor Browser Bundle
 build on Android.

 The main blocker he sees currently is Torbutton, since "FF mobile's crazy
 multi process model breaks various listeners in strange ways" and
 "Torbutton listens to a ton of request observers that are complicated by a
 multi-process model". See #5279 and #3100 for subtasks Mike expects will
 be needed along the way to making Torbutton work for FF mobile.

 But in the mean time, we could make a Tor Browser Bundle with Proxy Mobile
 as the proxy forcer addon. (Nathan, how much does that plan differ from
 how Orweb works today?)

 Then it would be an incremental set of steps for Mike to add Torbutton-
 like features into Proxy Mobile. Specifically, Mike says "I think the way
 to go is to copy+paste torbutton features into that thing, starting with
 easiest-first. And if that goes well, we'll start using it on the desktop,
 too (since we want to gut so much shit out of desktop torbutton anyway)"

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