[tor-talk] 'external application is needed'

[andrew at torproject.is]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:42:52PM -0800, keb at cyblings.on.ca wrote 0.9K bytes in 0 lines about:
: This is some kind of bug in TorBrowser/TorButton/Firefox.  It will actually just download (using your existing Firefox-Tor connection) and save the file when you click "launch application".

Actually, it's on purpose. See 3.1.3 in
https://torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#proxy-obedience,

"External apps, if launched automatically, can be induced to load files
that perform network activity. In order to prevent this, Torbutton
installs a component to provide the user with a popup whenever the
browser attempts to launch a helper app. Additionally, due primarily to
an issue with Ubuntu Unity, url-based drag and drop is filtered by this
component. Unity was pre-fetching URLs without using the browser's proxy
settings during a drag action, even if the drop was ultimately canceled
by the user. "

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