[tor-bugs] #7842 [Tor bundles/installation]: make a graphical TBB installer (extractor)

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#7842: make a graphical TBB installer (extractor)
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 Reporter:  proper                    |          Owner:  mo      
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:          
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:          
 Keywords:  tbb-usability             |         Parent:          
   Points:                            |   Actualpoints:          
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Comment(by phobos):

 Replying to [comment:6 mo]:

 > will take a "./Tor Browser" directory and produce torbrowser-install.exe
 from it. In will prompt to run Tor Browser after installation (and will
 still confuse users who are not able to find Tor Browser again later), and
 warn if you are trying to overwrite existing Tor Browser installations.

 We do not want an installer for TBB. TBB was created to get away from the
 horrible installers we had in the past. We had no end of issues with
 installers (which led to the creation of TBB). We should not spend time on
 installers.

 > Currently, the default location for TBB "installation" is the user
 desktop. I am not sure this is the best default, but I think it is an
 improvement over the installer directory (which is the 7zip default).

 The default location is whatever directory in which the zip/exe files
 resides. What we want is a simple exe/zip/dmg that runs TBB, does
 everything behind the scenes, and just works. Users shouldn't be exposed
 to installers, un-extractors, etc. It should just simply be a download and
 run. This will encourage more users to run from torproject.org, but they
 already do this. The answer is to fix TBB, not write installers and dig
 more into a system.

 > I would like to replace the generic Welcome page ("This wizard will
 guide you through the installation...") with some information about the
 portability of TBB (no shortcuts, simply delete of directory to uninstall,
 can install to USB device), but that again will add more language-
 dependent strings.

 We have this already, written up in a new check.tpo release by aagbsn.
 It's waiting on merging into the current check codebase before we can roll
 it out. I can't find the ticket for it, but there's at least two open
 tickets about it.

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