[tor-talk] still problems - update available

[Robert Ransom]

On 2011-10-14, Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk at gmx.com> wrote:
> Someone said the problem of inaccurate notices from TBB that an update
> was available was fixed.  This morning, I'm still getting the notice.

Have you restarted TBB since you were told that message was fixed?  I
just restarted one of my TBBs, and it performed the update check again
and didn't show the ‘your TBB is out of date’ message.

(Yes, the update check is only done on startup.  Yes, this makes it
rather useless to many (most?) TBB users, who keep their TBBs running
for a long time.  No, we can't just repeat the update check
periodically; it's bad enough that the update check makes a TBB's
first circuit recognizable at the exit node, and that every time a
user opens a new window, the exit node can tell that the user is
opening a new window and can tell whether TBB is asking check.tpo to
send the out-of-date warning message.  (I don't think we realized that
was a problem before we deployed this update notifier and shouted
‘Wolf! Wolf!’ at our users.))


Robert Ransom