[tor-reports] Pearl Crescent Report - July 2016

[Mark Smith]

Work completed by the Pearl Crescent team during July 2016
(Kathy Brade and Mark Smith):

* Tor Browser and Torbutton:

This month we helped fix the following:
  "Tor Browser icon doesn't appear in Applications folder or Dock"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19269

  "C++ patch to replace external applications helper dialog workaround"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19273
  (a Sponsor U deliverable)

  "plugin prompt is parented to wrong window"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19689

We also worked on these tickets:
  "Mac OS: wrong location for meek browser profile"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19646

  "GetUserDataDirectoryHome in nsXREDirProvider.cpp breaks Orfox"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19706

We contributed to the following Mozilla tickets:
  "Add a pref to allow disabling MathML"
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199
  (upstreaming a Tor Browser patch)

  "update badge shown after fallback to complete update"
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1280628

Also, we helped with bug triage and completed code reviews for
tickets # 19417, 19528, 19585.

* Tor Browser Updater:

We developed a patch for this ticket:
  "old updater files are left on disk after upgrade to TB 6.x"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19725

* Tor Launcher:
We helped with:
  "Set CurProcD for Thunderbird/Instantbird"
  https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19568

* Miscellaneous Activities:
We participated in the weekly Tor Browser meetings on IRC, we monitored
other meetings such as the UX meeting, and we participated in various
design discussions on IRC as well as on the mailing lists.

* Planned for August:
  - Vacation during the first week of August.

  - Assist with follow up work for the Tor Browser 6.0.x stable
    releases.

  - Work on the following ticket (part of the Tor Browser
    sandboxing effort):
      "Make Tor Launcher work with Unix Domain Socket option"
      https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14272

  - As time permits, work on other Tor Browser "loose ends", e.g.,
      #17858 (Creating incremental MARs for hardened builds)
      #17891 (Window classes change after update restart)
      #18292 (staged updates fail on Windows).
      #18913 (about:tor should not have chrome privileges)
      #18367 and #18369 (side-by-side storage for Windows and Linux)

  - Work on other Tor Browser, Tor Launcher, and Torbutton usability
   issues.

-- 
Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/

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