[tor-bugs] #33291 [Core Tor/Tor]: Making the tor library size smaller

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#33291: Making the tor library size smaller
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 Reporter:  gaba          |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-size      |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by jnewsome):

 Maybe this should be a separate ticket, but another thing to consider
 might be saving space for users that have both TBB and Orbot installed, as
 CrazyAstronaut mentioned in #tor.

 They propose a "thin" version of the Tor Browser that uses Orbot's Tor
 client. Perhaps another possibility would be a "fat" Tor Browser that
 exposes the Tor client for other apps to use (making Orbot unnecessary).
 Assuming doing that adds significant space requirements though, we'd
 presumably want to either offer two versions of TBB (confusing), or...:

 In general a possibility to consider if there's functionality that some,
 but not all, users need, is to separate that functionality into modules
 that can be downloaded and loaded on-demand from within the app itself.
 This would add *significant* complexity of course. Example:
 https://github.com/Instagram/ig-lazy-module-loader.

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