[liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

[Collin Sullivan]

Looks great! Congratulations!

Minor things on OSX 10.7.5:

* Took considerably longer to connect to the Tor network using this browser bundle than my previously-installed TorBrowser-2.3.25-5-osx-x86_64-en-US. I'm on a slow network but 2.3.25 typically takes ~1 minute or less to establish a connection here, while the new build took 5+ minutes on first launch. (Much faster on 2nd launch, I guess the previously-collected directory information had been cached?)

* Small inconveniences:
     * when connecting, splash screen is set to always-on-top, which was a bit annoying when it was connecting for those 5+ minutes.
     * when using Mission Control feature on Mac, screen disappears and isn't collected with other app windows.

Collin


On Jun 17, 2013, at 9:45 PM, Kody Leonard wrote:

> I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows XP is selected under Compatibility mode.   I had the same issue with other languages.  This is logged in the event viewer when it doesn't run as-is:
> 
> Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 17.0.6.0
> Faulting module name: d2d1.dll, version: 6.2.9200.16492
> Exception code: 0xc0000005
> Faulting application path: C:\XXXXXX\Tor Browser\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\firefox.exe
> Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\d2d1.dll
> 
> Kody
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Masayuki Hatta <mhatta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried torbrowser-install-3.0-alpha-1_en-US.exe on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit (Japan edition), but it doesn't run at all.  Installation went well, but double-clicking on "Start Tor Browser" icon doesn't start things off, nothing happens (seems trying something for a while, but crashes silently).  Is this known problem or am I the only one? I have two 64bit Win7 machines, and suffer from the same problem.  Things from the current  tor-browser-2.3.25-8_en-US.exe is working nicely for a long time, so I guess something wrong in the new Tor Browser Launcher...
> 
> Please let me know if there's something I can try.
> 
> Best regards,
> MH
> 
> 
> 2013/6/17 Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net>
> Hi,
> 
> I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important
> changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic
> builds that allow us to verify that he is honest to actually having
> serious usability improvements. I really mean it - the new TBB is
> actually awesome. It is blazing fast, it no longer has the sometimes
> confusing Vidalia UI, it is now fast to start, it now has a really nice
> splash screen, it has a setup wizard - you name it - nearly everything
> that people found difficult has been removed, replaced or improved.
> Hooray for Mike Perry and all that helped him!
> 
> Here is Mike's email:
> 
>  https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-June/028440.html
> 
> Here is the place to download it:
> 
>  https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
> 
> Please test it and please please tell us how we might improve it!
> 
> All the best,
> Jacob
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