[tbb-bugs] #28044 [Applications/Tor Launcher]: Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser

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#28044: Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:  brade
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  High                                 |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Launcher            |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  AffectsTails, ux-team,               |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201902R                          |
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 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Old description:

> We need to move away from our XPCOM extensions, Tor Launcher being one of
> them. As for Tor Browser it might be hard/impossible. if we tried to
> reimplement everything Tor Launcher does with the WebExtensions API.
> Instead we plan to integrate it tighter into the browser itself making
> use of it's capabilities.
>
> This ticket is the parent ticket for this plan.
>
> We need probably a proposal making sure we have the plan right before
> going to implement it.

New description:

 We need to move away from our XPCOM extensions, Tor Launcher being one of
 them. As for Tor Browser it might be hard/impossible, if we tried to
 reimplement everything Tor Launcher does with the WebExtensions API.
 Instead we plan to integrate it tighter into the browser itself making use
 of its capabilities.

 This ticket is the parent ticket for this plan.

 We need probably a proposal making sure we have the plan right before
 going to implement it.

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Comment (by gk):

 Nice! Have you by chance tried testing the mechanism you are using for
 integrating Tor Launcher into the browser in, say, some recent-ish
 mozilla-central build? It might be worth it in order to figure out whether
 we could do more work already now in case there are unanticipated problems
 with our migration plan for esr68.

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