[tor-dev] TBB without Vidalia

Roger Dingledine arma at mit.edu
Mon Jul 15 22:38:27 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> How technically difficult would it be to remove Vidalia from an
> already-packaged TBB? (Ideally something that could be put into a
> shell script.)  Basically what I want is a more-current-than-ESR10
> browser that uses a system-installed & -configured Tor instance.
> 
> I wouldn't miss the Torbutton UI, either (it should just use Tor all the time).

You could change the startup scripts to do all the launching that Vidalia
does, check error codes, etc.

But before doing that, you should check out TBB 3.0:
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-30alpha2-released
and see if it is already what you wanted.

--Roger



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