[tor-dev] User experience issue

Adam Shostack adam at shostack.org
Sat Nov 15 00:02:41 UTC 2014


On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:50:20AM +0000, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
| On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Adam Shostack <adam at shostack.org> wrote:
| > Hi,
| 
| Hi Adam,
| 
| > I just had the fun experience of trying to walk someone who's not very
| > technical and not familiar with Tor through downloading and installing
| > the TBB.
| >
| > One element which came out was she was confused by the relationship
| > between Tor, the Tor Browser Bundle, and Vidalia, and became
| > frustrated by that experience.  ("What's this Vidalia thing?  I
| > thought we were installing Tor!")
| >
| > I'm unsure if it would be appropriate/useful to file a bug, and so
| > would like advice on if/how to tackle this.
| 
| What did you download since you hit Vidalia? The Tor Browser has just
| been the browser and tor in the background for quite some time now.

That's a really good question.  When I next get physical access to
that machine, I'll try to figure out what happened.

Adam



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