Work completed by the Pearl Crescent team during March 2016
(Kathy Brade and Mark Smith):
* Tor Browser and Torbutton:
We spent some time this month finishing up the patches needed for Mac OS
code signing (coming soon to a Tor Browser alpha release):
"Tor Browser on OS X should not store data into the
application bundle"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13252
We also started on some ESR45 tasks:
"Rebase Tor Browser patches to ESR 45"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15197
"Place Canvas MediaStream behind site permission"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15640
"Make sure OffScreenCanvas API does not render moot our canvas
fingerprinting protection"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18599
"Make sure our SVG disabling patches work with SVG favicons"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18602
We did some testing of the Tor Browser stable and alpha releases that
were made during March (5.5.3, 5.5.4, 6.0a3, 6.0a4).
We reviewed patches for tickets #16725, 18466, 18557, 18631, and 18632.
* Tor Browser Updater:
We rebased the updater patches for ESR45:
"Rebase Tor Browser patches to ESR 45"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/15197#comment:11
* Tor Launcher:
Not much activity this month. We spent some time working on the
following ticket but have not published a patch yet:
"Tor Launcher only accepts HEXDIGIT passwords for controller"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18330
We also made a Tor Browser packaging change to ensure that the language
prompt will not be shown in locale-specific packages:
"modify Tor Browser packaging to avoid language prompt"
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18455
* Miscellaneous Activities:
We participated in the weekly Tor Browser meetings, UX meetings,
and app team meetings on IRC, and in various design discussions
on IRC as well as on the mailing lists.
* Planned for April:
- Help with any followup work for Mac OS code signing (see #13252).
- Assist with backporting of patches to the Firefox ESR 45 codebase
and with the other work related to ESR 45. See:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status!=closed&keywords=~ff45-esr&order=id
- Assist with Tor Browser 5.5.x maintenance and 6.x alpha releases.
* As Time Permits:
- Develop a fix for #18292 (staged updates fail on Windows).
- Work with UX researchers to ensure that their Tor Launcher
research is productive. See the discussions on the UX
mailing list or visit:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorLauncherUX2016
- Work on other Tor Browser, Tor Launcher, and Torbutton usability
issues.
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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent, LLC
http://pearlcrescent.com/
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