Tor-related work completed by the Pearl Crescent team in December 2015
(Kathy Brade and Mark Smith):
* Tor Browser Updater:
Updater activity during December was minimal, but we did make
contributions to a few tickets:
"Have a test to check that Tor Browser updater is working"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17662
"need to add aboutTBUpdate.dtd to Transifex"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17729
"Changelog after update is empty if JS is disabled" (unresolved)
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17917
We also reviewed recent updater changes made by Mozilla to ensure that
our updater will not be affected.
* Tor Browser and Torbutton:
We helped with the 5.0.5, 5.0.6, and 5.5a5 Tor Browser releases.
We started to look at changes to the on-disk layout of the Tor Browser
app on Mac OS to meet Apple's code signing requirements (work in progress):
"Support OS X Gatekeeper"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6540
"Tor Browser on OS X should not store data into the
application bundle"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13252
We fixed some small but annoying Tor Browser issues:
"8-month-old Tor Browser offers to 'Reset Tor Browser'"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16441
"console.error on new Tor Browser window"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16863
We triaged various tickets.
We reviewed many patches created by other developers, including for
tickets #12516, 15564, 15578, 17009, 17108, 17565, 17661, 17759, 17747,
and 17792.
* Tor Launcher:
Inspired by the UX research that is being done at Berkeley, we worked on
a series of small changes to the initial setup wizard. Details may be
found in this ticket:
"settings not saved after backing out of setup wizard"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11773
Our proposed changes go well beyond the title of the ticket; comments
are encouraged.
* Miscellaneous Activities:
We participated in the weekly Tor Browser and app team meetings
on IRC, and in various design discussions on IRC as well as on
the mailing lists.
* Planned for January:
- Revise the on-disk layout of the Tor Browser app on Mac OS
to meet Apple's code signing requirements (see #13252).
- Assist with the Tor Browser 5.0.x maintenance releases as needed.
- Help finish Tor Browser 5.5, including the hardened package.
- Work with UX researchers to ensure that their Tor Launcher
research is productive (see the discussions on the new UX
mailing list).
- Finish our simple but valuable improvements to the Tor Launcher
initial configuration wizard.
- Work on other Tor Browser, Tor Launcher, and Torbutton usability
issues as time permits.
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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent, LLC
http://pearlcrescent.com/
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