[tor-bugs] #10452 [Tor bundles/installation]: TBB 3.5 Windows installer makes users think it's smearing itself across the hard drive

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#10452: TBB 3.5 Windows installer makes users think it's smearing itself across the
hard drive
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 Reporter:  arma                      |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:
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 We had a lot of Windows TBB users download TBB but then click 'open'
 rather than 'save'. Then everything worked great, but when they wanted to
 run it a second time, it was nowhere to be found (since they never saved
 it anywhere).

 So for Windows we now have a simple installer that simply unpacks stuff
 and sticks it into the self-contained directory, just like before except
 it's more like what many Windows users expect.

 But smart users don't *know* that that's all it's doing. We should a) make
 it clearer in the installer text itself that TBB remains self-contained in
 just the directory they specify, and b) make it clearer on the download
 webpage when they're fetching it.

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