I am hoping it will be possible some time in future. I guess it needs someone contributing to it. At least reporting features we’d require for Whonix, maybe contributing code for it.
Grave bug:
It doesn’t work on Debian jessie yet - as you said - bug report link?
It doesn’t support
–new-window --newwindow -new-window -newwindow)
–new-tab --newtab -new-tab -newtab)
yet?
tb-updater runs when running in Whonix a connectivity check, sees if Tor has already established a circuit. Maybe we could ask for a hole to run that code in torbrowser-launcher (by reading a config, by running plugin code).
Does it defeat an endless data attack [suppose due to some bug or hack file sizes get apparently 100000 GB] (like max download file size)?
Multiple languages support available or on the horizon?
It doesn't support
--new-window --newwindow -new-window -newwindow)
--new-tab --newtab -new-tab -newtab)
yet?
Do you mean opening several instances of torbrowser or new tabs in a running instances? No. Any subsequent call to a running torbrowser-launcher just sets the focus to it. It does not take arguments (except -settings for running the settings GUI instead of torbrowser).
Multiple languages support available
Yes.
Could it work in conjunction with open-link-confirmation (https://github.com/Whonix/open-link-confirmation)?
Regarding open-link-confirmation, have you added $open_in_tool_extra_opts (–new-tab) and tb_start_new_tab() in /usr/bin/torbrowser for Whonix 9? I seem to remember that open-link-confirmation was opening a new window.
Anyhow, that could make it easier to get it working with torbrowser-launcher.
No. Any subsequent call to a running torbrowser-launcher just sets the focus to it. It does not take arguments (except -settings for running the settings GUI instead of torbrowser).
There is now a ticket for that by the way:
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher/issues/103
When that gets implemented, I’ll open tickets for suggesting tb-default-browser and open-link-confirmation. Not doing that right now, because it would still be blocked by that ticket.
I think tb-updater is more robust than torbrowser-launcher. I had Murphy’s law “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” in mind when developing tb-updater.
torbrowser-launcher is still going thought the learning phase how many things can go wrong and not to assume anything.
I think tb-updater is more robust than torbrowser-launcher. I had Murphy's law "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." in mind when developing tb-updater.
torbrowser-launcher is still going thought the learning phase how many things can go wrong and not to assume anything.
I am watching closely, and at this very moment, torbrowser-launcher is no longer working in jessie. Yes, Murphy’s law can be enduring.
The ticket for this is btw the following. using torbrowser-launcher by default instead of tb-updater in Whonix: https://phabricator.whonix.org/T18
However, it’s unlikely will be swiching from tb-updater to torbrowser-launcher.
A new feature that was added to tb-updater that is not available in torbrowser-launcher. up to date versions of Tor Browsers in newly created AppVMs inherited from updated TemplateVMs: https://phabricator.whonix.org/T417
More likely but still not on the horizon to get rid of tb-updater is to have Tor Browser properly packaged for Debian.