On 2012-04-21, Andrew Lewman <[email protected]> wrote: > # Third issue: green onion > > 3 of 8 people saw the green onion appear in the menu bar up top. These > three people hovered over it and saw the 'Connected to the Tor Network' > message. No one knew to double-click on it to get a menu of other things > to do. No one knew to right-click on it to get the drop-down menu.
What should they have wanted to do with Vidalia? > They > were presented with the default check.torproject.org 'congratulations' > page and then sat there. > > # Fourth issue: check.tpo is not helpful > > 8 of 8 people saw the default check.torproject.org site telling them > 'congratulations. Your browser is configured to use tor.' 7 of 8 people > asked 'where is my browser?' The one who didn't ask this question was > already a firefox user and recognized the interface. 0 of 8 understood > what the IP address message meant. Comments ranged from 'is that > different than my current IP address?' to 'what's an ip address?' > > As an aside, when showing someone TBB on their own laptop, they saw the > check.tpo site, and then went to Safari and started it up. When asked > why they did this, the answer was 'safari is my browser. this says your > browser is configured to use tor.' That is exactly why I suggested the phrase “Congratulations. *This* browser is configured to use Tor.” (emphasis added) on https://bugs.torproject.org/2289 . But when I explained on IRC that there is a big difference between “this browser” and “your browser”, no one believed that users would interpret them differently. Robert Ransom _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
