[Connection Settings] Point Help buttons to the offline manual

Now that we merged the offline manual, we should point Help buttons to it.

• Existing URLs in TorStrings
• about:preferences#connection (and use TorStrings where not using it!)
  • "Select a Built-In Bridge..." help button to Circumvention
  • "Request a Bridge..." to Bridges
  • "Add a Bridge Manually..." to Bridges
• about:preferences#privacy
  • Onion location
  • Security level
• Onion location notification (to test: go to about:config and set privacy.prioritizeonions.showNotification to true)
• Security level panel
• about:tor
• Bookmarks

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Should we change the link in about:tor?

After all we show that page when we are already connected.

And in addition to tor-browser.git and about:tor (which is on torbutton.git), should we update the bookmarks?

There are a couple of other candidates for the manual in addition to about:tor and bookmarks:

• In the Application menu under Help.
• "Tor Browser Help" within the About Tor Browser window is currently linking to support.mozilla.org in stable for some reason, but I think at some point it linked to the manual instead?

I think it would be good to point at the bundled manual from any internal link regardless of connection status for consistency (plus it also saves a little bandwidth).

@gus/@championquizzer: What do you think? Bookmarks could be the exception, possibly.

In the Application menu under Help.

I've already done it in !308 (merged) . But I can revert it if needed.

"Tor Browser Help" within the About Tor Browser window is currently linking to support.mozilla.org in stable for some reason, but I think at some point it linked to the manual instead?

Nice catch! I thought we fixed it!

I'll change it to the manual, either the online or the offline version, as you prefer .

Aha, I thought we did too! Let's go with the offline version unless anyone says otherwise please :)

+1 for linking to the offline manual.

I think I have noticed another candidate here:
'Learn More' in the redesigned bridge card. Currently it's leading to a blank tab but maybe we can point it to Bridges/#bridge-moji (preview: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/bridges/#bridge-moji)

'Learn More' in the redesigned bridge card. Currently it's leading to a blank tab

Right! I had completely forgotten about that!

Thanks for the reminder!

Let's go with the offline version unless anyone says otherwise please

+1

We can also point 'Learn More' under 'HTTPS-Only Mode' in about:preferences#privacy to secure-connections (preview: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/secure-connections/)

We can also point 'Learn More' under 'HTTPS-Only Mode' in about:preferences#privacy to secure-connections (preview: https://championquizzer.pages.torproject.net/manual/secure-connections/)

I think that the intention was removing it from the preferences, to avoid users disabling HTTPS-Only (unless they are really stubborn on wanting it, and do it from about:config).

Thanks! I have added a note about this and will make the changes to the manual accordingly. (tpo/web/manual#119 (comment 2812653))

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So, about:tor may be a little problematic, because only privileged pages can open about:... pages.

about:tor is not that privileged at the moment. I'll see what I can do, though.

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Onion location popups have the same problem with about:... links, too.

So, since we are online when we show them, I think that just showing the online version is the easiest option, rather than start another fight with XUL.

That happens even with the nsIAboutModule::URI_SAFE_FOR_UNTRUSTED_CONTENT flag set!

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