Hello list, For a long time now I've configured Vidalia to start an installed alpha Tor on my system, instead of the stable Tor included within TBB. Then, with a few versions TBB around the same time as the Windows TBB Aero theme bug, Vidalia started freezing and then crashing when I changed the path of Tor exe. Then, in a later version of TBB this issue was fixed.
The current bug is new. The current bug is explained below, as a copy/paste from the ticket I created for this issue #8378 (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8378). There is a work around this bug, and that's dropping an alpha Tor (copied from an installed alpha Tor) over the stable Tor found in TBB, however, I'm unsure if doing so means I'm doing something stupid . . . please advise. Thank you very much ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- RE: TBB v2.3.25-4 on Windows 7 I just configured Vidalia to use the Tor within TBB dir as C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe, but when I start TBB Firefox can't connect to Internet. Then I tried the default .\tor.exe (which is the same exact location as C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe) and TBB can access Internet no problem. So, it seems like there are some bugs with using a Tor located anywhere other than .\tor.exe, *and* using C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe instead of .\tor.exe prevents Firefox from getting online. This ticket is related to #8367 [sic] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8376 I made this ticket major priority because as is I can no longer use Tor alpha with TBB. The Tor team doesn't build alpha versions of TBB for Windows users, unlike they do for their more favorite OSes :( So, if this isn't fixed it appears Windows users are placed further back into the closest, being we can't even use (nor test for bugs with TBB) a Tor alpha build. Please fix this, and please don't take many months to do so. I understand you're all overworked, and you all are doing you [sic] best, however, it does seem Windows problems are normally lower priority than problems with other OSes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S.That last paragraph is not meant as an insult, I have the highest respect for Tor devs. Sadly, it's merely the way I see things after being active with Tor for many years, long before TBB and Vidalia. I do understand much of the reason is lack of competent Windows devs (as per past comments by Nick and/or Roger and/or Mike), as well as lack of woman/man power and money, but the fact is most TBB users use Windows, and most are far less computer competent than I. I wrote this postscript to try and avoid discussion about my last paragraph on on tor-talk . . . I felt I should explain my reasons for writing it to avoid getting off topic. -- georgeofthejungle george_of_the_jun...@fastmail.fm _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk