Roger Dingledine: > Almost true. check.tp.o will no longer be the homepage (which also > gives a usability advantage on startup -- a local homepage will mean > you're not waiting for some outside page to load, and you're not > doing it while your Tor is bootstrapping its directory information, > making things seem even slower than they will be). > > But TBB in the background will still fetch > https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions > to decide if you need to upgrade without telling anybody your version. > > But that happens asynchronously, in the background, and doesn't need > to run javascript (at least, not externally fetched javascript). > > So yes, the answer is that pretty soon the check website won't be the > bottleneck that it currently is.
Just out of interest, why doesn't the current TBB load a .onion address to check that Tor is working correctly? Or two tabs, one loading the current check site and one loading a hidden service version? The HS version would demonstrate beyond a doubt that you're communicating over Tor. -- kat -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
