[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 lunar):

 Replying to [comment:7 arthuredelstein]:
 > Since this patch is part of our effort to isolate circuits by URL bar
 domain (#5752), I think a circuit diagram and "New Identity" button per
 URL bar domain makes sense. That way you can stay logged into, say,
 Twitter, while creating a new identity for the next Google search.

 Is this “New identity” button going to clear out cookies, history and the
 like?

 Here is the story from support point of view: people used to be able to
 use a “New identity” button in Vidalia. It was bad because it actually
 only changed Tor circuits, and did not provide a new ''identity'' for web
 browsing at all as all the fingerprints were still the same. Then with Tor
 Browser 3.5, users were sad because when they clicked “New identity”, they
 were loosing all their open tabs. So we had to explain that what they had
 previously were actually not what they wanted.

 I'd rather not go through a third mental model change in less than 2
 years.

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