[tor-dev] introduce some customization on the tbb

Thu Nov 14 09:55:04 UTC 2019

Hi Richard, this is great!
I appreciate all the insights you gave me.
about the build setup i would definitely go with your suggestion. maybe it
would be possible to also use these build scripts inside a docker composer
for a reload on demand during development. and about windows,  it is a
requirement for my situation , but i just saw some build scripts regarding
windows in the tbb repo you mentioned; i would be happy to hear from you
about tips and tricks regarding windows!

basically what i am about to implement are as below:

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above screen shots are from the browser extension that i have already
implemented and want to integrate with the tbb.

1) padding is the time period which i send random packets to random
destinations for generating fake browsing pattern.

2) rotation is a fancy name for MaxCircuitDirtiness

3) idle timeout is a custom clock which will close the tbb automatically in
case of no interaction from the user

4) use proxy & use bridge is already available inside tbb

5) entry, middle and exit countries will fill the torrc with user selected
options

based on the commit you mentioned for  "about:preferences#tor pane", i
believe that commit is the right place i should start coding.

Best Regards,
Sarpedon

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 9:33 PM Richard Pospesel <richard at torproject.org>
wrote:

> Hey Sarpedon,
>
> The tor-browser-build project (
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-build.git/ ) can be
> used to build tor-browser for all the various environments, and you can
> updated the /projects/firefox/config file to point to your own git repo
> and commit for development. Unfortunately this is not particularly fast,
> but it's really the only way to go if you need builds for platforms
> other than Linux.
>
> Alternatively, you can just build tor-browser (
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/ ), and copy the relevant
> bits over an existing tor-browser install. This is the workflow I use
> during development on Linux and is generally pretty straight forward to
> use once you have scripts setup to do the deploying.
>
> It's theoretically possible to get this sort of incremental build setup
> working for other platforms (ie building windows bins in a linux dev
> environment), but it's a pain and would require delving into the
> tor-browser-build firefox build and config scripts. I've done it before
> for our older windows build target (before we switched to clang and
> friends) and can give you some tips on how to do that if necessary.
>
> The Tor Browser Hacking Guide should be a good resource as well, though
> it is a living document so might be out of date:
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Hacking
>
> If you're interested in updating/improving/adding to the
> about:preferences#tor pane, than you can start by looking at this commit
> which added the page:
>
>
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/commit/?h=tor-browser-68.2.0esr-9.5-1&id=bea7e61c120f207e7e1a65041b44dc1998e3656a
>
> In general, the relevant things there are in:
>
> /browser/components/torpreferences/*
> /browser/modules/TorProtocolService.jsm
> /browser/modules/TorStrings.jsm
>
> What sort of improvements are you looking to add? If you're interested
> in submitting a patch, you should open a ticket that tracks whatever
> feature you're looking to add. There we can give you early code and
> design/UX feedback to improve the odds of us accepting your patch :)
>
> best,
> -Richard
>
>
> On 11/9/19 4:04 PM, sarpedon montecarlo wrote:
> > Hello to the community!
> > my first question is that is there a solution for rapid development of
> > tbb? i was wondering that each time a contributor wants to change
> > something in the tbb or add extra functionality, they have to go through
> > the build process which i just guess would be very time consuming. i was
> > wondering that is there any containerized environment for this? any
> > docker ecosystem available or other solutions that might help?
> > my second question is about the changes that i want to implement. i am
> > interested into the graphical settings page about bridges and tor
> > process that currently tbb is exposing to the end users. if we want to
> > add more functionality into this settings page, where should we start to
> > change? and is there any possibility that we may have some control over
> > the underlying tor process as well, for instance controlling it's
> > launching or it's torrc configuration; because as i see, there must be a
> > link between the graphical interface of tbb and the underlying tor
> > process so that is the way we can control bridges for instance. similar
> > to this i was planning to add more graphical options to the interface
> > for controlling other configuration aspects of the tor process through
> > it's torrc or other workarounds.
> > in the past i have achieved this by writing a browser extension that
> > benefits from native messaging for communication to the tor process; but
> > this is not really performance friendly and an intuitive experience for
> > the end users.i am not satisfied with the result. so i was interested on
> > mirroring these functionalities inside tbb.
> > i really appreciate your insights and thoughts on the matter,
> > have a great day,
> > Sarpedon.
> >
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