Using bridges or switching to bridges sometimes does not work with tor 0.3.2
Trying to switch from a direct connection to using a bridge is not working anymore with tor on master
(found while using commit f2f1cab2b3c6a56f93862c424663f083b79c7bc3) on my Linux box.
Steps to reproduce:
- Take a recent Tor Browser (e.g. an alpha version)
- Make sure you replace
tor
shipped in your Tor Browser instance with one compiled from a recent master commit - Start Tor Browser and choose direct connection
- Shut Tor Browser down after you got greeted with the
about:tor
page - Restart Tor Browser and press the "Open Settings" button before the bootstrapping is finished
- Select e.g. the recommended
obfs4
default bridge option - The start-up stalls (I quit Tor Browser after 5 minutes waiting)
The first bad commit is c21cfd28f43a969229ede02e20c6b554c1b88aae which fixed #17750 (moved). Without that one Tor Browser resumes bootstrapping after a couple of seconds and is using an obfs4
bridge.