[tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: Usability Improvement Proposal (windows)

[Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)]

Hi all,

i would like to propose some usability improvement for TorBrowserBundle
for Windows, in order to make it more usable.

Reduce to 3-clicks the requirements to use TorBrowserBundle on Windows.

Today the Tor Browser Bundle require the user to make several action
before using it that can represent a stopping-issue for unskilled and
uncertain users.

Especially the user require to:
- dealing with the concept of "extraction"
  Really dumb users doesn't know what file compression is, some doesn't
even know what file size.
- dealing with a decision of "where to extract".
  That relate to interacting with the system and a really dumb users
fear doing actions for which he don't know the consequence.

In doing this the user have to do several clicks and choices.

There are a lot of users that "are not even able to install firefox".
They fear to damage the computer in doing some actions for which they
don't know the consequence.

I'd like to propose a new simplified way of using TorBrowserBundle as
follow:
- User Download the software
- User click on TorBrowserBundle.exe
- A nice splashscreen show to the user
- A progress bar (below the splashscreen) inform the user that Tor it's
initialing
  - Extracting to TorBrowserBundle Directory ...OK
  - Starting Tor...OK
  - Initialing Tor Connection... OK
  - Starting Firefox... OK
- Then the browser show up to the user.
- The browser show at first page :
  - useful information about Tor
  - inform the user about the newly created directory
  - include the default CheckTor page

By using that approach the user will not have the feeling of no
"technical" decision has to be taken by the user in order to use Tor, no
stopping-fear of breaking something, no compression/extraction concept
to be understood.

The user the next time that want to use TorBrowserBundle will not need
to enter into the Installation Directory but will always be able to
start the software from the same file he downloaded

That way it would really be a 3-clicks step for the user to use Tor
Browser Bundle:
- Click on download link
- Accept download
- Start the software

What do you think?

-naif