[tor-bugs] #21952 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic
redirects and aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda                                |          Owner:  acat
     Type:  project                              |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, tor-hs, network-team-       |  Actual Points:  5.5
  roadmap-november, TorBrowserTeam201911,        |
  tbb-9.5                                        |
Parent ID:  #30024                               |         Points:  6
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor27-must
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Changes (by acat):

 * status:  assigned => needs_revision


Comment:

 Thanks for the review.

 > 3. Can we use the circular onion icon? I aim to have updated all the
 onions at the URL bar and the circuit display too.

 Is there a svg for that one? I could not find one with just a single color
 like the ones in your design.

 > 4. I don't think we need a menu under the [...] It adds noise and I
 don't see a real use case for it. Do you think I'm missing something? Let
 me know.

 I think it makes sense. This came for free by using the internal Firefox
 page action API, but we can just make it not be a page action, and be at
 the left of those, like the reader mode button for example.

 > 5. Can we prompt the discover-like doorhanger just for first-time users?
 I don't want to suggest users change the general settings every time they
 have an onion available. It will add extra friction in the entire
 experience which I don't think is needed.
 > 6. If users have selected [ask me every time] then we show the onion-
 label suggestion pill. If users have selected [always use .onion when
 available] then we redirect to the onion using the proposed animation. So,
 the onion-label pill doesn't need a menu. Again, am i missing something?

 Ok, so clicking on the pill should directly go to the .onion, and the
 doorhanger should appear only once, for the opt-in. I think that makes
 sense, and then there's no need for contextual menu, indeed.

 > 9. As part of #30024, I made this micro animation for when the onion
 gets updated. Do you think it is something doable? The persistent pill
 seems too much for it.
 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/30024/prompt-
 onion-2.gif

 Not completely sure how easy that will be, but I will try. The animation
 only affects the "lock"/onion icon and the pill, right? That's for "ask me
 everytime", for "always use .onion" the animation would be only on the
 "lock"/onion (as there would be no pill), if I am correct.

 > 10. The panel at `about:preferences` looks great. Should we move it
 under the Tor section? I suggested to have it on Privacy & Security and
 maybe it is the right place to have it. What do others think?

 I'm not sure. Is the Tor section supposed to mean "settings for Tor
 client", or just any setting related to Tor? I don't know if it should be
 in `Privacy/Security` either, as I'm not sure it has much privacy/security
 benefits actually (as noted in
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/asn/torspec.git/tree/proposals/ideas
 /onion-location.txt?h=onion-
 location&id=14fc750e3afcd759f4235ab955535a07eed24286).

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