[tor-bugs] #8641 [TorBrowserButton]: Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP

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#8641: Create Browser UI indication for current circuit status and exit IP
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     Reporter:  mikeperry         |      Owner:  mikeperry
         Type:  enhancement       |     Status:  needs_information
     Priority:  major             |  Milestone:
    Component:  TorBrowserButton  |    Version:
   Resolution:                    |   Keywords:  tbb-usability
Actual Points:                    |  Parent ID:  #5752
       Points:                    |
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Comment (by arthuredelstein):

 I'm posting a patch for this bug. To work, it needs my patches from #3455
 to be applied. A few points about this version:

 1. I've haven't dealt with i18n of the UI text yet (except for country
 names, which are already built into Mozilla). Should I put English
 versions of the strings into the DTD files for every language?
 2. This patch works without any patch for #8405. However, we can animate
 the circuit to show its progress if we can attach username+password to
 CIRCUIT building events (not STREAM events).
 3. I haven't implemented anything for the status bar as I had originally
 proposed, because I think a circuit diagram animation will be nicer.
 4. I wrote a redundant Tor controller module (tor-control-port.js), not
 realizing there is one in TorLauncher (tl-protocol.js). One difference is
 commands are implemented by tl-protocol.js synchrononously and by tor-
 control-port.js asynchronously. For now this patch uses tor-control-
 port.js, to take advantage of the async style. I have been discussing with
 mcs the possibility of merging the two modules in TorLauncher.

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