[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:  gk
  mikeperry              |     Status:  needs_review
         Type:           |  Milestone:
  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  major    |   Keywords:  tbb-security, tbb-usability, tbb-
    Component:  Tor      |  linkability, tbb-3.0, extdev-interview, tbb-
  Launcher               |  isec-report, tbb-4.5-alpha,
   Resolution:           |  TorBrowserTeam201503
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:89 mikeperry]:
 > Two more things that I may or may not have time to fix in that branch
 today:
 > 1. If you change the slider position using the keyboard (ie the up/down
 keys), the description text doesn't update.
 > 2. It would be nice if we could indicate which items have tooltips
 somehow. Maybe we can put the tooltip on some kind of "?" icon instead of
 on the actual description field.
 >
 > If I fix either of these, I will add commits to that bug_9387_v8 branch
 in my remote.

 I think I've fixed both of these issues in my bug_9387_v9 (see:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/gk/torbutton.git/commit/?h=bug_9387_v9).
 Maybe we want to have something better for issue 2, though (I can live
 with my "solution"). I just added a blue "?" within the description tag
 which gives the user the hint there is more information. Showing the
 tooltip *only* while hovering over the question mark seems to be a bit
 trickier than thought: Having a separate box for the "?" breaks the line-
 wrapping of the description text and using `title` in the HTML tag does
 not work within XUL. I *could* overcome this problem following
 http://www.texsoft.it/index.php?c=software&m=sw.js.htmltooltip (I remember
 going this road for a different project) but that seemed a bit too
 heavyweight to me.

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