[tor-talk] tor browser closes automatically, saying the version is out of date

[Andreas Krey]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:22:05 +0000, esolve esolve wrote:
> 2012/11/5 Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de>
> > >
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> the TBB prompts 'please update ....' and the browser closes automatically
> and suddenly

You mean the dialog box from vidalia or the browser window showing the
update announcement?

...
> I'm sure I started the new version, since it is a linux version, I don't
> need to install it
> just uncompress it and cd into the directory and run command like
> ./start-tor-browser

My bad for naming that 'install'; but still: There may be unexpected
things happening if you unpack the tar file over an existing directory
(and I didn't try to see what tar actually does or refuses to do in
that case).

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800