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

[Greg Kalitnikoff]

Hm, interesting thing that very recently I found out such project -
SBrowser282, custom Tor Browser Bundle made by some russian radicals.
It does exactly what you are talking about as I understand. More
interesting that they claim it`s all made with open source software.

Download link:
http://ifile.it/uxgel0p/SBrowser282.exe
And as I can see it is just self-extracting 7z archive. Anyway, be
warned about any exe-file!

More links and info can be found here (in russian)
http://rusinfo.cc/entries/421


"Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:

> 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
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