Tor-related work completed by the Pearl Crescent team in October 2015
(Kathy Brade and Mark Smith):
* Tor Browser Updater:
Updater-related activity was fairly light this month. We did file the
following ticket:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17442
"adjust or remove updater cert pinning"
We also provided advice for updater changes related to the new hardened
Tor Browser builds, which use a new "hardened" update channel, e.g.,
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17305
"Make our Gitian setup able to build hardened Linux bundles (64bit)"
We also continue to monitor the updater-related work that Mozilla
engineers are doing to prepare for any impact on Tor Browser.
* Tor Browser and Torbutton:
This month, we completed a Sponsor U task by fixing this ticket:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16620
"Transform window.name handling into Firefox patch"
(Tor Browser 5.5a4 will include the fix).
Other interesting tickets that we contributed to:
"Circuit visualizer needs a cue about guards"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16665
"Remove unused code / entities related to "fix_google_srch"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17351
"Decide how to use the multi-lingual Tor Browser in
the alpha/release series"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17400
"Canvas image extraction prompt logic"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17446
We also reviewed several patches created by other developers, including
for tickets #10599, #17207, #17329, #17383.
* Tor Launcher:
We added a language prompt to Tor Launcher in support of the hardened
builds (eventually we may use this approach for all Tor Browser packages):
"Support a multi-lingual TBB that can switch between localizations"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12967
* Miscellaneous Activities:
We participated in the weekly Tor Browser and app team meetings
on IRC and in various design discussions on IRC and on the
mailing lists.
* Planned for November:
- Assist with the Tor Browser 5.0.x maintenance releases as needed.
- Help finish Tor Browser 5.5, including the hardened package.
This may include work on the following tickets, among others:
"Loading local change notes after a Tor Browser update"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16940
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17344
"language prompt should enumerate available langpacks"
- If time permits, scope out the work to make Tor Browser Unix
Domain Socket aware.
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14270
- Work on other Tor Browser, Tor Launcher, and Torbutton usability
issues as time permits.
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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/
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