[tor-bugs] #33879 [Applications/Tor Browser]: relay-search now gives wrong instructions when javascript is off

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#33879: relay-search now gives wrong instructions when javascript is off
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     Reporter:  arma                      |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect                    |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
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       Points:                            |   Reviewer:
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 When I go to
 https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search
 in Tor Browser "safest" mode, it tells me
 "Please enable JavaScript to use this service. If you are using Tor
 Browser on High Security mode, it is possible to enable JavaScript to run
 only on this page. Click the NoScript icon on your address bar and select
 "Temporarily allow all on this page". Relay Search only uses JavaScript
 resources that are hosted by the Tor Metrics team."

 Now that we've turned off javascript through a browser config setting
 (#33613), these instructions are no longer right.

 I've turned this into a Tor Browser ticket first, so the browser folks can
 tell us what the correct instructions are.

 I'm guessing you need to go to about:config and toggle a thing, and *also*
 you need to go change something in noscript, which is harder than clicking
 on the noscript icon because there isn't one anymore. Maybe we want a faq
 entry on support.tpo instead, so more people can see it, and then relay-
 search can just link to that?

 Postscript: I see in
 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-907
 that we have some instructions there. Is that text still right? If so, it
 sounds like the best plan is to turn that text into a support.tpo entry,
 and then tell future people (including relay-search) to link to that
 entry.

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