[tor-bugs] #28051 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Build Orbot into TBA

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#28051: Build Orbot into TBA
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  sysrqb
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, tba-a2,                  |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201811                           |
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                                                 |  Sponsor8
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Comment (by gk):

 Okay, I gave the whole thing some testing and it works, nice! The two main
 points I have so far:

 1) I start the app and it says it's Tor Browser but I still need to start
 that Orbot thing which might confuse users ("Hey, I want to run Tor
 Browser and I already started it!1! What do I need to do now with that
 Orbot piece?). But I think that's okay for the alpha.

 2) More worriesome, though: I start Orbot and after it has bootstrapped
 nothing happens. It's essentially sitting there and no browser window pops
 up. In fact, it's not even clear how one could manually open one. I
 pressed by accident the button I usually press if I want to go back a
 website in my history and suddenly the window is open an I can use Tor
 Browser. Pressing that "going back one website"-button "works" as well if
 one has not started the Orbot part yet. The huge downside to that scenario
 is that it's not obvious how to go back to start Orbot now and the user is
 just receiving proxy connection errors (so far I needed to get rid of the
 current Tor Browser instance and start over to work around that).

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