Tor-related work that the Pearl Crescent team did in March
(Kathy Brade and Mark Smith):
* Firefox Updater for Tor Browser:
We made several small improvements to the updater and to the
Tor Browser build process:
"Build MAR tools archive deterministically"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15023
"Windows: disable "runas" code path in updater"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15201
"Patch make_incremental_update.sh to only include forced updates if
they differ"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15406
* Tor Browser and Torbutton:
We spent a little time testing the Tor Browser 4.0.5, 4.0.6, and 4.5a5
candidate builds.
We helped with bug triage, code reviews, and worked on various fixes.
Tickets that we fixed:
"Create preference to disable SVG"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12827
"Create preference to disable MathML"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13548
"Users that try to run from DMG files run into
'Another copy of Firefox is running'"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14631
Interesting tickets for which we did code reviews:
"Prompt if Tor Browser is Maximized"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7255
"Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9387
"Better handle vertical displays"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13650
"about:tor page has text alignment problems for RTL languages"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15085
* Tor Launcher:
We spent some time on bug triage and usability improvements.
Interesting tickets that we worked on:
"Tor Launcher strips "bridge" from the middle of bridge lines"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13576
"Improve error message "Connecting to a relay directory failed
(no route to host)."
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15006
* Miscellaneous Activities:
We reviewed notes from the Winter Dev Meeting.
We participated in the weekly Tor Browser dev meetings on IRC and
in various design discussions on IRC and on the mailing lists.
* Planned for April 2015:
- Do whatever we can to help the team ship Tor Browser 4.5.
- Assist with porting Tor Browser patches to the Firefox ESR 38
codebase.
- Fix any updater issues that occur in the field, and continue
to improve the updater user experience.
- Make some progress on design and implementation for:
"Implement update verification via Tor consensus in Tor Browser"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14676
- Continue to look at Tor Browser, Tor Launcher, and Torbutton
issues that were exposed during the UX Sprint.
--
Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/
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