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I don’t recommending editing /usr/share/tb-updater/tbb_hardcoded_version since it will be overwritten on next update anyhow. If anything, use instead:
- Whonxi 13:
/etc/torbrowser.d/50_user.conf - Whonix 14:
/etc/torbrowser.d/50_user.conf//rw/config/torbrowser.d/50_user.conf
Also modifying tbb_hardcoded_version is not useful at all. If you want to manually set it to a fixed value you can use tbb_version which is designed to have priority over anything that tbb_hardcoded_version does. Example:
tbb_version="6.5a5-hardened"
Even manually setting tbb_version in config does not great since then one will keep that version forever (unless manually modified again) even when tbb_hardcoded_version is higher. So perhaps I should add a variable “tbb_use_this_version_if_higher_than_tbb_hardeced_version”? (Any variable name suggestions?)
Btw update-torbrowser can be used completely without user interaction. I.e. all question can be answered beforehand by setting the right variables. This is currently not documented and becomes only clear by reading the update-torbrrowser script code.
The automatic Tor Browser upgrade when the tb-updater package is upgraded can also be disabled. That is documented here:
Tor Browser Essentials