Hi Richard, this is great! I appreciate all the insights you gave me. about the build setup i would definitely go with your suggestion. maybe it would be possible to also use these build scripts inside a docker composer for a reload on demand during development. and about windows, it is a requirement for my situation , but i just saw some build scripts regarding windows in the tbb repo you mentioned; i would be happy to hear from you about tips and tricks regarding windows!
basically what i am about to implement are as below: [image: image.png] [image: image.png] [image: image.png] above screen shots are from the browser extension that i have already implemented and want to integrate with the tbb. 1) padding is the time period which i send random packets to random destinations for generating fake browsing pattern. 2) rotation is a fancy name for MaxCircuitDirtiness 3) idle timeout is a custom clock which will close the tbb automatically in case of no interaction from the user 4) use proxy & use bridge is already available inside tbb 5) entry, middle and exit countries will fill the torrc with user selected options based on the commit you mentioned for "about:preferences#tor pane", i believe that commit is the right place i should start coding. Best Regards, Sarpedon On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:33 PM Richard Pospesel <rich...@torproject.org> wrote: > Hey Sarpedon, > > The tor-browser-build project ( > https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/ ) can be > used to build tor-browser for all the various environments, and you can > updated the /projects/firefox/config file to point to your own git repo > and commit for development. Unfortunately this is not particularly fast, > but it's really the only way to go if you need builds for platforms > other than Linux. > > Alternatively, you can just build tor-browser ( > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/ ), and copy the relevant > bits over an existing tor-browser install. This is the workflow I use > during development on Linux and is generally pretty straight forward to > use once you have scripts setup to do the deploying. > > It's theoretically possible to get this sort of incremental build setup > working for other platforms (ie building windows bins in a linux dev > environment), but it's a pain and would require delving into the > tor-browser-build firefox build and config scripts. I've done it before > for our older windows build target (before we switched to clang and > friends) and can give you some tips on how to do that if necessary. > > The Tor Browser Hacking Guide should be a good resource as well, though > it is a living document so might be out of date: > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Hacking > > If you're interested in updating/improving/adding to the > about:preferences#tor pane, than you can start by looking at this commit > which added the page: > > > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-68.2.0esr-9.5-1&id=bea7e61c120f207e7e1a65041b44dc1998e3656a > > In general, the relevant things there are in: > > /browser/components/torpreferences/* > /browser/modules/TorProtocolService.jsm > /browser/modules/TorStrings.jsm > > What sort of improvements are you looking to add? If you're interested > in submitting a patch, you should open a ticket that tracks whatever > feature you're looking to add. There we can give you early code and > design/UX feedback to improve the odds of us accepting your patch :) > > best, > -Richard > > > On 11/9/19 4:04 PM, sarpedon montecarlo wrote: > > Hello to the community! > > my first question is that is there a solution for rapid development of > > tbb? i was wondering that each time a contributor wants to change > > something in the tbb or add extra functionality, they have to go through > > the build process which i just guess would be very time consuming. i was > > wondering that is there any containerized environment for this? any > > docker ecosystem available or other solutions that might help? > > my second question is about the changes that i want to implement. i am > > interested into the graphical settings page about bridges and tor > > process that currently tbb is exposing to the end users. if we want to > > add more functionality into this settings page, where should we start to > > change? and is there any possibility that we may have some control over > > the underlying tor process as well, for instance controlling it's > > launching or it's torrc configuration; because as i see, there must be a > > link between the graphical interface of tbb and the underlying tor > > process so that is the way we can control bridges for instance. similar > > to this i was planning to add more graphical options to the interface > > for controlling other configuration aspects of the tor process through > > it's torrc or other workarounds. > > in the past i have achieved this by writing a browser extension that > > benefits from native messaging for communication to the tor process; but > > this is not really performance friendly and an intuitive experience for > > the end users.i am not satisfied with the result. so i was interested on > > mirroring these functionalities inside tbb. > > i really appreciate your insights and thoughts on the matter, > > have a great day, > > Sarpedon. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tor-dev mailing list > > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev >
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