[tor-bugs] #6096 [TorBrowserButton]: Perform TBB version check async on new tab?

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#6096: Perform TBB version check async on new tab?
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 Reporter:  mikeperry            |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  project              |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  major                |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton     |        Version:           
 Keywords:  SponsorJ tbb-bounty  |         Parent:           
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Hrmm.. I guess a third option could be some sort of icon hint in the
 Toolbar, but that is even more likely to get ignored.

 From a usability standpoint, I think I like the idea of an ever-present
 notification ribbon/toolbar thing on *all* windows rather than a popup
 that appears only when the check interval expires, so long as it can't be
 confused with something from the content window.

 Note, we'll also want to make sure that such a ribbon does not change the
 size of the resolution values from your CSS + window.screen patches...
 This might actually be fairly tricky in practice, due to there not being a
 lot of slack in the current window sizing code in Torbutton
 (https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/blob/master:/src/chrome/content/torbutton.js#l4358).
 See also #6146, for example... We could handle this issue by simply giving
 a larger buffer for maxHeight in that function, though.

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