Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-25 Thread Amaelle G
Hi LibTech, Many thanks congrats to the Tor Project team for this really easy-to-use new version, I hardly see any reason why someone who can run an 'average browser' wouldn't be able to use this one. For non-techies looking for user-friendly privacy tools, that's pretty cool :) Still, there

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Brian Conley
Hi Jacob, This is great news, do you know when the new version available for download on torproject.org? Also, I'm not sure how I know whether I'm running 32 or 64 bit OSX 10.6, since it doesn't tell me in the About this Mac. While I can certainly figure that out, I'm not sure how many users

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Dragana Kaurin
On 06/24/2013 02:53 PM, Brian Conley wrote: Hi Jacob, This is great news, do you know when the new version available for download on torproject.org http://torproject.org? Also, I'm not sure how I know whether I'm running 32 or 64 bit OSX 10.6, since it doesn't tell me in the About this Mac.

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Brian Conley
Thanks Dragana, But wouldn't that mean there is no new browser bundle for recent macs as only 32 is specified at Jacob's link? Brian On Jun 24, 2013 3:18 PM, Dragana Kaurin kau...@openitp.org wrote: On 06/24/2013 02:53 PM, Brian Conley wrote: Hi Jacob, This is great news, do you know

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Brian Conley: Thanks Dragana, But wouldn't that mean there is no new browser bundle for recent macs as only 32 is specified at Jacob's link? Hi Brian, So a few things - one is that if you go into About this mac you should see a system profiler link or a details button of some sort. This

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-06-24, at 3:43 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Brian Conley: Thanks Dragana, But wouldn't that mean there is no new browser bundle for recent macs as only 32 is specified at Jacob's link? Hi Brian, So a few things - one is that if you go into About this mac you

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jillian C. York
Minor piece of feedback: Why StartPage as default search engine? They employ safe search by default. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: On 2013-06-24, at 3:43 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Brian Conley: Thanks Dragana, But

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Jillian C. York: Minor piece of feedback: Why StartPage as default search engine? They employ safe search by default. That is a good question - I think it is open to discussion. Generally speaking, I think that a censorship free search engine that requires no cookies, no javascript, no

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Michael Carbone: DuckDuckGo seems to work well with Tor and without javascript/cookies/etc. They also run it as a hidden service so you can keep your search in the Tor cloud -- I don't know of other search engines that do that: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion I generally feel friendly to DuckDuckGo.

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Nick
Quoth Jacob Appelbaum: I wonder how it performs for search between https://duckduckgo.com/ and http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion - has anyone performed any queries and computed information about time to connect, delays in searching, etc? Some kind analysis would be useful. Especially if we compare

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jillian C. York
I prefer DuckDuckGo as well - although the other option is convincing StartPage to be less censorious... On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: The default engine was Google for a while until Mike Perry and I changed it. We chose StartPage over DDG

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Cooper Quintin
Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one ( https://startpage.com/do/mypage.pl?prf=c2a9ee9b20d61e980b6f6cce7026bc91 )has safe search turned off and no caching for video and image search results turned on. It could be useful to put something like

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Cooper Quintin
Jillian, It is also worth noting that DDG has safe search enabled by default as well. Cooper Quintin Technology Director radicalDESIGNS PGP Key ID: 75FB 9347 FA4B 22A0 5068 080B D0EA 7B6F F0AF E2CA On 06/24/2013 02:26 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: I prefer DuckDuckGo as well - although the other

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jillian C. York
+1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one ( https://startpage.com/do/mypage.pl?prf=c2a9ee9b20d61e980b6f6cce7026bc91 )has safe search turned off and no

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Jillian C. York: +1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one ( https://startpage.com/do/mypage.pl?prf=c2a9ee9b20d61e980b6f6cce7026bc91 )has safe search

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Cooper Quintin: The default engine was Google for a while until Mike Perry and I changed it. We chose StartPage over DDG because while both being privacy aware, start page had more relevant search results. However these days I personally find that DDG's results are often more relevant than

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Jacob Appelbaum: Jillian C. York: +1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one (

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
I'd just like to add that I'm a DuckDuckGo user myself and that I can definitely vouch for the service. NK On 2013-06-24, at 6:50 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: Jacob Appelbaum: Jillian C. York: +1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: Jacob Appelbaum: Jillian C. York: +1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one (

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-18 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
This is a really awesome improvement. I tried the new Tor Browser yesterday (OS X) and loved it. Did not encounter any problems. Really glad to see such drastic usability improvements for Tor. NK On 2013-06-17, at 9:45 AM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: Hi, I'm really excited

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-18 Thread Kody Leonard
I have the same results: I do not have a Nvidia card. sfc /verifyonly did not resolve the issue Setting gfx.direct2d.disabled to true lets it run without setting the compatibility to Windows XP Once it is going it looks really great! Excited to try it out. On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:10 AM,

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-18 Thread Masayuki Hatta
Hi, Now the new TBB works nicely for me, and I love it. One regret is UI messages are not translated into Japanese...actually, the messages seems to be already translated( https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/torproject/language/ja/), but somehow it doesn't show up (messages in the installer is

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Carbone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations Tor devs! Serious kudos -- this is exactly the direction TBB needs to go. A couple minor things: the order of the addons in the toolbar seems arbitrary (particularly the location of the Tor button, NoScript, and HTTPS Everywhere). I'm

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Masayuki Hatta
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

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Kody Leonard
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

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread 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

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Collin Sullivan
On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Collin Sullivan wrote: * when using Mission Control feature on Mac, screen disappears and isn't collected with other app windows. Sorry, to clarify: this is the splash screen while connecting, not the browser screen. Browser works fine in Mission Control. --

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations Tor Project. Well done to Mike Perry and all the contributors. I've tested it on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Debian 6.0 Squeeze and I had no technical issues on either. First launch (using clear Internet connection) took approx 40-50

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
Kody Leonard: 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:

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: Kody Leonard: 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:

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Martin Johnson
Tested tor-browser-linux32-3.0-alpha-1_en-US from China. UI-wise I agree with everybody that running just one program is much more intuitive. I can't connect though. Here's what happens: 1. Try connecting directly. This times out after a long time. 2. Add bridge relays from

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Masayuki Hatta
Hi, Some findings on this issue. 0) Setting compatibility mode to Windows XP (Service Pack 3) makes it work! 1) I tried it on two machines, both don't have NVidia.(both have Intel HD Graphics 4000) 2) sfc /verifyonly couldn't find any discrepancy. Hope it helps. Best regards, MH 2013/6/18

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Ian Clarke
Great stuff Jacob! Will report any bugs I encounter. Ian. On Jun 17, 2013 8:47 AM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: 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

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
It looks like Mozilla hit a similar bug some years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595364 While in compatibility mode, can you try setting one or both of these to 'true' in about:config: gfx.direct2d.disabled layers.acceleration.disabled Then try without XP compatibility