[tor-bugs] #8472 [Tor bundles/installation]: Check goes down, TBB appears to be failing to work

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#8472: Check goes down, TBB appears to be failing to work
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 Reporter:  ioerror                   |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  critical                  |      Milestone:           
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:           
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 Check failed again today and it caused issues for people.

 TBB needs a local (as in in tor-browser_en-US/Data/ ) home page. We should
 not load up https://check.torproject.org as our home page on every start -
 it not only creates a predictable https/http fetch, it also fails badly
 and confuses users.

 I propose a local page and that this local page has a single dynamic
 element, if any. I've made the most ghetto hack possible - I just put an
 image tag for check and put some text that says "If you see an onion above
 this text, your browser is configured to use Tor."

 We need to somehow set this as the default home page and ideally, we'd do
 something more awesome than loading a raw image and using text. It would
 make more sense to ship both icons and then just see if we can fetch *any*
 resource over Tor.

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