[tor-talk] still problems - update available

[Mike Perry]

Thus spake Joe Btfsplk (joebtfsplk at gmx.com):

> Someone said the problem of inaccurate notices from TBB that an update 
> was available was fixed.  This morning, I'm still getting the notice.  
> This is the page it accesses if click link in Aurora:
> https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html
> 
> What * exact file & data * is the version check using in TBB to check 
> against "latest" avail. versions from Tor Project?  I looked at several 
> files - from the version I'm launching - (I * cold booted * machine 
> overnight).  The files indicate I'm indeed using v2.2.33-3 - which also 
> appears to be latest on Tor Project site.

The process is driven by Torbutton, and works like this:

1. Download https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions

2. Compare each entry in that list against the about:config value
torbrowser.version

3a. If we found a match in the list, load
https://check.torproject.org/?lang=en-US&small=1&uptodate=1

3b. If we did not find a match in the list, load
https://check.torproject.org/?lang=en-US&small=1&uptodate=0

3c. If there was a parse error or the download failed, load the
default homepage, which should be
https://check.torproject.org/?lang=en-US&small=1

In the case of 3c, there should be a Torbutton WARN message in
Tools->Web Developer->Error Console that tells you the nature of the
failure.

Which check.tp.o URL is your TBB loading?

What is the value of torbrowser.version?

Is there anything in the Error Console?

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs
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