[tor-bugs] #4261 [Tor bundles/installation]: Use .dmg rather than .zip for Mac OS X

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#4261: Use .dmg rather than .zip for Mac OS X
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 Reporter:  ioerror                   |          Owner:  hellias       
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  needs_revision
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:                
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:                
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Pretty much every other OSX app in the world has a .dmg that has the .app
 folder and a shortcut to Applications folder, and an arrow or some other
 instructions that indicate you need to drag one to the other.

 So how about instead of having an Applications folder shortcut, we just
 have a shortcut to the Desktop folder? Wouldn't that solve the problem? Or
 does this drag operation itself update all sorts of plists, regardless of
 the destination folder?

 I know for me, I hate the zip file because it naturally downloads to
 Downloads, and then I click on it (if you download TBB from TBB, it does
 *not* auto-unzip), and then the TBB app is in the wrong place (the
 Downloads folder still). Worse, when I download more than one update, the
 app gets renamed to things like "Tor Browser-en_US 2" by default after
 clicking on the .zip. This is a nightmare, because a non-zero number of
 novice users will just continue to run the old, exploitable Tor Browser-
 en_US from Downloads, if they even manage find the damn thing in Downloads
 in the first place.

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