make a graphical TBB installer (extractor)
Quote: PET: Eliminating Stop-Points in the Installation and Use of. Anonymity Systems
Issue: Archive Confusion (3/41)
Some users expected a guided “wizard” installer, and did not realize they had to click on “Start Tor Browser Bundle” once unzipping had occurred, leading to confusion.
Users could extract it, open their system browser afterwards and erroneously assume their traffic is already anonymized.
I don't agree with their suggestion (note on website) and will propose a better one.
Solution Windows:
Even thought TBB is portable, you can still make a minimal installer which asks where to extract, extracts and optionally starts it.
Firefox Portable by portableapps.com has a much more intuitive installer for Windows.
If you don't want to try it, there is short video. (Turn of the music, jump to 1:40 min Seconds and watch until 3:00 min.) The installer is Free Software and the only missing feature is optionally starting TBB.
Solution Linux:
- #5236 (moved) "Make a deb of the Torbrowser and add to repository"
- #3994 (moved) "Get TorBrowser in Debian"
- Or make a graphical installer (extractor).