*** This bug is a security vulnerability *** Public security bug reported:
After downloading and installing the 64-bit English Linux Tor Browser Bundle following the default Linux instructions located here (https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en), every user on Ubuntu 13.10 will find that the (secure) Tor browser will be useless because it will not accept *any* keyboard input. That means, out of the box, on Ubuntu 13.10, the Tor Browser can not do anything whatsoever. You can't type a single URL into the URL bar at the top of the browser. Interestingly, other wholly unrelated browsers (such as the insecure Firefox browser) work just fine; so it's just the Tor Browser that is useless, out of the box. Luckily, the workaround is to kill the ibus every time you plan on running the Tor Browser. However, that workaround is highly unintuitive. I searched Launchpad for a bug report, since EVERY SINGLE USER will have this problem, but, I didn't see any reports. Perhaps I did the search wrong, in which case, please just duplicate this, since I don't have any special insight except that which is written above. To reproduce this bug: 1. Install the Linux 64-bit English Tor Browser Bundle as per instructions on the Tor web pages. 2. Launch the Tor Browser. 3. Try to type something into the URL bar using the computer keyboard. You will fail. Then: 4. Kill the ibus. 5. Now, try to type something into the Tor Browser URL bar. 6. You will succeed. This problem happens on no other operating system (to my knowledge) other than Ubuntu 13.10; hence this bug report is filed. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: browser bundle ibus tor ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1272032 Title: Tor Browser Bundle on Ubuntu 13.10 is useless until/unless one manually kills the ibus process To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1272032/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
