On 3/10/2015 9:20 PM, iratemonkey wrote: > I only have time to reply back to your reply on part 3 tonight, but it > is not a 'bug', this seems to be done on purpose. > > > > > 3) Why is the little orion icon missing in TOR 4.0.4 bundle for > Windows? Now > > Tor bundle looks exactly the same as regular Firefox and Firefox GUI > looks > > like Chrome. There is very little visual differentiation left and > this is a > > bit of a concern that I might accidentally cross containmenate. > > > > So, I really meant, in the system tray (assuming this is Windows), > that little Onion router icon (the one that turns yellow, green) is > gone.... > I think the icon you are referring to is actually part of Vidalia. It's removal from TBB has been lamented by many because it had a lot of nice features that are now missing from the bundle. There is a stand alone version of Vidalia that, for now, gets back much of the missing functionality.
> Since the early versions of TOR ( I still use this one I customized > back in 2010 - five years ago : > http://sourceforge.net/projects/securitytor/ ) > > Since the early versions of TOR, each new version has been from the > interface/UI standpoint more and more dumped down... almost like way > of the Windows 8 "metro" interface, flat design tiles, the whole world > moving to cloud first, mobile first, and all that good stuff... > The goodness of that stuff is open to debate. > Firefox has started copying Google's Chrome with the massive > iteration/upgrade numerical versioning inflation counts, and > installing a maintenence as a service forcing and deepthroating > everyone to immediately upgrade upgrade upgrade... > > Problem is this, now Firefox has gone like full on google, Ads in the > browser itself all about monetization, etc.... > > This is why for non-Tor use, I'm sticking with Firefox 28.0 and will > never move to the newer ad infested versions and the change of > interface GUI that looks almost identical to Chrome. > > it is many steps backwards in my opinion.... > > And the dumbing down of TOR, at least from the UI/interface > perspective is not good. > Sure I'll still use slax/tails, but Tor bundle for Windows by default > is getting worse and worse. > prime example, why the heck is noscript turned off by default on TOR, > and flash/silverlight/javascript not even blocked? > I also wish the TBB developers had enough respect for the users to let them use the product as they see fit.
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