[tor-bugs] #7494 [Firefox Patch Issues]: Create local homepage for TBB

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#7494: Create local homepage for TBB
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 Reporter:  mikeperry                  |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  major                      |      Milestone:           
Component:  Firefox Patch Issues       |        Version:           
 Keywords:  tbb-usability, tbb-bounty  |         Parent:           
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 For the browser tor test, sadly I sort of dropped the ball on #6546, which
 would have given us a local, quick test in 0.2.4.x... Right now, all we
 have is the check.torproject.org XMLHttpRequest test url,
 https://check.torproject.org/?TorButton=true. Seee
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbutton.git/blob/master:/src/chrome/content/torbutton.js#l980.

 I am thinking that for TBB it is less important to verify you're actually
 using Tor, especially every time.. It is perhaps something we can do once
 after first bootstrap or something.

 Or, perhaps all we need is a simpler test of the SOCKS port's existence..
 But then we need to somehow check that the port 9150 is really a Tor port
 and not something else...

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