On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Mike Perry <mikepe...@fscked.org> wrote: > (blah blah) > The reason I am discussing this in so much detail here is because I > believe there is a chance that there are users out there who rely on > the toggle model and/or their OS Firefox build, and may be confused or > enraged by the new model. I'm asking this list to get an idea of how > many of those users there are, and to try to understand what the > overall costs of this sort of migration are. > > I also ask this because I am a heavy user of the toggle model myself, > and abandoning it is sort of a leap of faith for me, too. > > So can anyone bring up any specific issues that may be caused by the > change?
I consider myself a rather technical user with a lot of knowledge about the pitfalls of using Tor and security products in general, and I'm scared shit whenever I want to use torbutton in firefox because I'm afraid I will forget to toggle it, or toggle it at the wrong time, or simply do anything wrong. I have created a separate firefox profile with torbutton always on, and one profile without it, and separating these is the only sane way. Thus, I can only agree to 100% that this is a good idea. The only problem I can come up with at 2 AM is that maintaining a separate firefox can be a little messy in various linux distributions unless you happen to have someone build a nice binary for you. I suppose most of the common distributions will be covered with a tor-repository and the minor distributions will generally have more knowledgable users so they can take care of the evenutal mess. // pipe _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
