[tor-bugs] #14449 [Website]: Bad Mac OS X Instructions

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#14449: Bad Mac OS X Instructions
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 Reporter:  cypherpunks  |          Owner:  Sebastian
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  trivial      |      Milestone:
Component:  Website      |        Version:
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 The documentation on the Tor Project's website contains a few errors for
 Mac OS X users.

 The syntax instructions on the “Verifying Signatures” page are wrong. “gpg
 --verify /Users/Alice/TorBrowser-4.0.3-osx-i386-en-US.dmg{.asc*,}” The
 signature file should come *before* the file one is trying to verify. --->
 "gpg --verify /Users/Alice/Downloads/TorBrowser-4.0.3-osx32_en-US.dmg.asc
 /Users/Alice/Downloads/TorBrowser-4.0.3-osx32_en-US.dmg". That's pretty
 straight forward.

 On the download page for the TBB, the instructions can be confusing for
 people not used to downloading applications not found on the App Store:
 “Download the file above, save it somewhere, then click on it, add the
 .dmg file inside your Applications folder and you will have a Tor Browser
 application in your chosen language that you can pin on your Dock.”
 Besides the fact that it should say "add the .dmg file TO your
 Applications folder," you don’t add the actual .dmg file. The user should
 mount the .dmg file, and then drag the actual TorBrowser application into
 her Applications folder. Otherwise she may think she has to mount the .dmg
 file every time from her Applications folder and then click the TBB,
 instead of just being able to launch the TBB from her Applications folder
 which I'm pretty sure is the intent here.

 These sound like minute problems, but they pose a serious barrier to non-
 technical users who want to use Tor. It took a lot of external research
 for me on the web to figure out what I was doing wrong when I first
 started learning about this stuff. We need a diverse base of Tor users in
 order for the anonymity aspect to be effective. Let's fix this.

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