[tor-bugs] #34152 [Webpages]: Latest Tor Browser download

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#34152: Latest Tor Browser download
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 Reporter:  robinmetral  |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium       |      Component:  Webpages
  Version:               |       Severity:  Normal
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 I've needed to go through the Tor Browser installation process several
 times, on mostly Ubuntu machines.

 Instead of navigating to the website from Firefox, downloading the tarball
 in /download, and extracting it with the Archive Manager, it would be so
 much simpler to do something like this from the terminal:


 {{{
 wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/latest/tor-browser_en-
 US.tar.xz -O - | tar xz
 }}}

 This is not possible right now, because the URL for the latest Tor Browser
 on the website is tied to a specific version. If the Tor installation is
 added to a script, the script will be outdated as soon as a new version
 comes out.

 Could we create a permanent URL for the latest stable version of Tor
 Browser? Since installing variants of Tor Browser via package managers is
 discouraged, it would be nice to make a scripted installation process a
 bit simpler.

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