On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 10:37:22 +0000 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 04:42:52PM -0800, [email protected] wrote 0.9K > bytes in 0 lines about: > : This is some kind of bug in TorBrowser/TorButton/Firefox. It will actually > just download (using your existing Firefox-Tor connection) and save the file > when you click "launch application". > > Actually, it's on purpose. See 3.1.3 in > https://torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#proxy-obedience, > > "External apps, if launched automatically, can be induced to load files > that perform network activity. In order to prevent this, Torbutton > installs a component to provide the user with a popup whenever the > browser attempts to launch a helper app.
When a user clicks on the orange Download button on the torproject.org website, they are clearly intending to download not launch, so perhaps it is a usability bug in the website. The external application popup does not occur when a user right-clicks the button and selects "Save Link As". _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
