l.m: > > "Patrick Schleizer" wrote: > To rephrase this proposal in an alternative way... At the moment, when > you download the TBB package, your only chance to use > tor-launcher/Tor/pluggable transports is to also start Tor Browser. No > way to do that without starting Tor Browser. What is being suggested > here, is an option to just start tor-launcher/Tor/pluggable transports > without starting Tor Browser. Then tor-launcher/Tor/pluggable > transports > could be used for the usual applications that can be torified. And > when > the user wants to start Tor Browser, it would just connect to the > already running tor-launcher/Tor/pluggable transports (if not already > running). > > Okay, that's clearer. So you're proposing to provide a launcher that > makes loading Tor Browser optional?
Yes. > That can already be done manually > as I'm sure you're aware. Download the TBB bundle then delete the > tor-launcher extension. Now you can start the tor process via symlink > or simple script. Then you can start/close/relaunch Tor Browser via a > simple script on a whim while keeping the Tor process completely > separate. > > 1. After extracting TBB, navigate to the folder > /Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default/extensions and delete > the tor-launcher xpi (:(). Being able to use the tor-launcher graphical user interface is what this proposal is for. By asking on this list, we were hoping for advice on where/how in tor-launcher's source code one could best make these modifications to reach this goal. I should have probably posted this on on tbb-dev rather than tor-talk. -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
