[tor-bugs] #9387 [Tor Launcher]: Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"

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#9387: Tor Launcher/Torbutton should provide a "Security Slider"
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  gk
  mikeperry              |     Status:  new
         Type:           |  Milestone:
  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  major    |   Keywords:  TorBrowserTeam201502, tbb-security,
    Component:  Tor      |  tbb-usability, tbb-linkability, tbb-3.0,
  Launcher               |  extdev-interview, tbb-isec-report,
   Resolution:           |  tbb-4.5-alpha
Actual Points:           |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:72 arma]:
 > Here's another vote for making the slider easier to find -- in
 particular, if the user wants to not run javascript, then we need to make
 it likely that she will be able to set this before loading any pages.
 >
 > My original vision had been for it to be on the "connect or configure"
 screen -- I thought of it less as a configuration option and more of a
 "what type of user are you" option. But I grant that the tradeoff there is
 that soon we'll want to put everything on that initial screen.

 Yes, I think we want to expose the slider more prominently. I am still not
 sure how and am concentrating meanwhile on the one in the Torbutton
 settings. Mike's idea of having a horizontal slider is probably not
 working as the slider labels are not fitting there without overlapping
 which gives a crappy user experience. Apart from that do I have the
 feeling that a slider is somehow tied to something being vertically (but
 that might be just me)...

 > While I'm at it: I wonder if we should have a phrase like "better
 usability" go with "low security", and a phrase like "lower usability" or
 "breaks some browser functionality" to go with "high security".

 Yes, that part will be available in one of the next slider revisions.

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