[tor-bugs] #9442 [TorBrowserButton]: Add New Circuit button to TorButton for TBB alpha 3.x

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#9442: Add New Circuit button to TorButton for TBB alpha 3.x
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  mikeperry
  cypherpunks            |     Status:  new
         Type:           |  Milestone:
  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  normal   |   Keywords:  tbb-newnym, tbb-usability, extdev-
    Component:           |  interview
  TorBrowserButton       |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by toruser23):

 Replying to [comment:11 mikeperry]:
 > Having this feature in the primary menu will likely confuse normal
 people who won't abuse the feature for localization or captcha evasion
 purposes (and who have no idea what a "Tor Circuit" even is). Moreover,
 our dropdown menu for Torbutton is getting too long already.

 I don't really see it as abuse, minor detail I guess. I do however see a
 future where people are getting catpchas constantly either leading them to
 think the website is broken or the tor has problems. When browsing with
 tor I always encounter captchas far more than any normal connection and
 it's on the rise.

 > It also turns out to be the case that my original suggestion to put it
 in Network Settings is the wrong place for this though too, in part
 because that XUL window is displayed during startup, so we're sort of
 stuck.

 Is it possible to perhaps have a configuration option that modifies the
 drop down menu in the first place? Then just have said option off by
 default?

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