[tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds

[Peter Retzlaff]

2013/6/18 Cat S <catslovetor at yahoo.com>

> Hi Mike,
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org>
> To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle 3.0alpha1 test builds
>
>
> Andreas Krey:
> > On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:39:31 +0000, Mike Perry wrote:
> > ...
> > > Please try these out, test them, and give us feedback! The plan is to
> > > post them on the blog by Monday, unless something goes horribly wrong.
> > >
> > >
> https://people.torproject.org/~mikeperry/tbb-3.0alpha1-builds/official/
> >
> > Erm, I used torbrowser-install-3.0-alpha-1_en-US,
> > and it immediately (at double-clicking the 'Start
> > Tor Browser') crashes on this Windows 7 box.
> >
> >  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
> >   Application Name:    firefox.exe
> >   Application Version:    17.0.6.0
> >   Application Timestamp:    386d4380
> >   Fault Module Name:    d2d1.dll
> >   Fault Module Version:    6.1.7601.17514
> >   Fault Module Timestamp:    4ce7b7aa
> >   Exception Code:    c0000005
> >   Exception Offset:    0001f3ba
> >   OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
> >   Locale ID:    1033
> >   Additional Information 1:    0a9e
> >   Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
> >   Additional Information 3:    0a9e
> >   Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
>
> Ok, people on liberation-tech are reporting that they can run the bundle
> if they right-click on it and go to "Properties->Compatibilty->Run in
> Windows XP Compatibility mode."
>
> If 'Compatibility Mode' works, While in compatibility mode, can you try
> setting one or both of these to 'true' in about:config:
>
>   gfx.direct2d.disabled
>   layers.acceleration.disabled
>
> Then try without XP compatibility mode, and see if one or both allow you
> to run without crashes?
>
>
> It also looks like Mozilla hit a similar bug some years ago, and
> maintains a blacklist of bad D2D drivers to disable D2D for:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595364
>
> I wonder if we somehow didn't pick up their D2D driver blacklist in this
> build...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Mike Perry
> _______________________________________________
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1. Yes, running in XP SP3 compatibility mode allows TBB to start and not
> crash, however, the windows "Tor Network Settings" is blank and the program
> seems to have frozen.
>
> 2. Because I couldn't get the browser to load I edited the prefs.js file
> as so, and this worked:
> user_pref("gfx.direct2d.disabled", true);
> user_pref("layers.acceleration.disabled", true);
>
>
> P.S. Great fucking job on the update! Good job to all who put in effort.
> Really, that's impressive. However, please add the true NewNym function
> [0], as now I see it's not there in TorButton.
>
> [0] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-June/028551.html
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Yes, same here. Enabling compatibility mode solved the crash and the
browser loads fine for me.
After setting "gfx.direct2d.disabled" the browser runs even without
compatibility mode. I didn't need to enable the layer acceleration flag.
I also vaguely remember having problems with standard Firefox crashing
randomly on my machine, some time ago. Disabling direct2d solved the
problem back then, and indeed, both flags were still enabled in my Firefox
configuration.