[tor-bugs] #2149 [Core Tor/Tor]: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor

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#2149: new 'extra dormant' mode for people who never use their tor
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 Reporter:  arma                                 |          Owner:
                                                 |  angelo620
     Type:  enhancement                          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                 |  unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |        Version:  Tor:
                                                 |  0.2.7
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  performance, scaling, tor-client,    |  Actual Points:
  SponsorU-deferred, sponsor4, sponsor8-maybe,   |
  034-triage-20180328, 035-removed-20180711      |
Parent ID:  #25500                               |         Points:  large
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor8-can
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Comment (by arma):

 Brave is on track to ship a Tor client with every Brave user, by default,
 so that the Tor client is ready and waiting if the Brave user happens to
 ask for private browsing mode and happens to ask for the Tor variant of
 it.

 So some feature like the one in this ticket is sure going to start looking
 smart for us.

 The exciting catch for the Brave scenario is that they actually want to
 start the Tor client preemptively, and have it on and warm, so the user
 experience when they first switch to using Tor is a good one. So for that
 case we're going to have to invent something smarter than "have your Tor
 go to sleep anyway", since they'll want to find a way to disable that,
 etc.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2149#comment:63>
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