[tor-bugs] #22598 [Applications/Tor Browser]: When updater read fails, About Tor Browser and Quit stop working

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#22598: When updater read fails, About Tor Browser and Quit stop working
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     Reporter:  teor                      |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                            |  Parent ID:
       Points:                            |   Reviewer:
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 I was running Tor Browser 7.0 on macOS 10.12.

 When it tried to update to 7.0.1, org.mozilla.updater[0] temporarily
 failed to read ~/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-Data/ due to some
 security settings I have.

 When this happened, Tor Browser's "About Tor Browser" and "Quit" menu
 items stopped working. When I force quit and relaunched Tor Browser, the
 update worked well, and everything now works fine.

 But we really shouldn't make the app impossible to quit (or impossible to
 re-try an update) just because the data directory is read-only.

 [0]: /Users/USER/Library/Application Support/TorBrowser-
 Data/UpdateInfo/Applications/TorBrowser/updates/0/updater.app/Contents/MacOS/org.mozilla.updater

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