#9387: Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"
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Reporter: | Owner: brade
mikeperry | Status: new
Type: | Milestone:
enhancement | Version:
Priority: major | Keywords: tbb-security, tbb-usability, tbb-
Component: Tor | linkability, tbb-3.0, extdev-interview
Launcher | Parent ID:
Resolution: |
Actual Points: |
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Comment (by mikeperry):
Replying to [comment:39 gk]:
> Replying to [comment:38 mikeperry]:
> > On slow sites, you get a script popup if it tries to do something
extremely intensive and stalls out. This can be improved by raising
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dom.max_script_run_time, but it's already at 10
seconds. The browser UI is also unresponsive during this entire time.
> >
> > This is pretty bad for usability, in my opinion.
>
> Yes, but do you have some hard data that the JIT options are the culprit
here? So far I have seen exactly one complaint, maybe two about the TBB >=
3.6 being slow that we might want to relate to the JIT options. That seems
IMO not enough to disable the security gain. At least not until we have
hardened builds available regularly.
I have seen a couple instances of this popup personally on some sites. You
can also notice the ~5 to 10X performance degradation on https://octane-
benchmark.googlecode.com/svn/latest/index.html and http://dromaeo.com/,
and these benchmark sites will also trigger the popup.
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