[tor-bugs] #9387 [Tor Launcher]: Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"

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#9387: Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  brade
  mikeperry              |     Status:  new
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  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  major    |   Keywords:  tbb-security, tbb-usability, tbb-
    Component:  Tor      |  linkability, tbb-3.0
  Launcher               |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by arma):

 Replying to [comment:27 brade]:
 > In TBB, we want to prompt the user for their choices as part of the tor
 configuration dialogs (presented by Tor Launcher when TBB is opened for
 the first time).  Maybe the add-on that includes the security slider can
 make a XUL panel available that Tor Launcher can present as part of the
 first run experience.  If that can't be done, the security logic (setting
 of preferences, etc.) should be placed in Torbutton or another add-on
 where it can be used by Tor Launcher and other add-ons that need to allow
 users to change the settings.

 I like the intuition behind this division -- Tor Launcher asks the user
 what she wants, and then sets some config option that instructs Torbutton
 about what the user asked for. Then Torbutton actually does it.

 (I'm ok with your 'torbutton makes a xul panel' approach too, if that is
 actually simpler -- it sounds complexer to me. But I am not one with xul.)

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