[tor-bugs] #21053 [Applications/Tor Browser]: No obvious way to restart Tor after dialog dismissed

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#21053: No obvious way to restart Tor after dialog dismissed
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     Reporter:  cypherpunks               |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
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 When running Tor Browser 6.5a6-hardened, sometimes the Tor daemon
 disappears (always because of the Linux OOM killer I think). Usually I
 restart from the "Tor unexpectedly exited" dialog and everything is fine,
 but last time I accidentally dismissed that dialog and found no way to
 recover from this situation. I had to restart the browser completely,
 which was annoying because I had tabs open and some text typed in a form
 and I don't want any of this state on disk.

 The "New Identity" and "New Tor Circuit" commands should pop up the "Tor
 exited" dialog if the daemon's not running, because what are they going to
 do otherwise? And how about putting a "restart" button on the "Proxy
 refusing connections" page?

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