Rename "New Identity"

TorBrowser can't to change or clear your identity. Torbutton can to clear history, to close tabs, to send newnym signal to Tor's controller by one click.

Tor by newnym signal can't to change or clear your identity. Tor can discard old circuits and begin to build new one. Circuit can't to be used as identity. IP address of exit node can't to be used as identity too (here you can discuss about ownership, leases, assigns, and nats at final).

added component::applications/tor browser in Legacy / Trac gitlab-tb-torbutton in Legacy / Trac owner::tbb-team in Legacy / Trac priority::medium in Legacy / Trac severity::normal in Legacy / Trac status::new in Legacy / Trac tbb-newnym in Legacy / Trac tbb-torbutton in Legacy / Trac type::defect in Legacy / Trac user-feedback in Legacy / Trac ux-team in Legacy / Trac labels

Propose renaming to "New Session".

Lets to discuss.

Trac:
Cc: N/A to arma

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-newnym added

Dupped to legacy/trac#9906 (moved).

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to duplicate

How it's duplicate? No matter what you does with your tabs, this bug about naming button not about those functional. No word "Identity" can be used by browser.

Trac:
Resolution: duplicate to N/A
Status: closed to reopened

Replying to cypherpunks:

Propose renaming to "New Session".

Lets to discuss.

I agree with you that technically it's not entirely accurate.

But it's not clear to me that saying "session" would provide any more accuracy -- everybody brings their own assumptions to these words, and many of those assumptions don't apply well.

The main reason I'd suggest to stick with 'new identity' is because Tor users recognize the phrase by now.

But it's not clear to me that saying "session" would provide any more accuracy -- everybody brings their own assumptions to these words, and many of those assumptions don't apply well. I think "session" more close to actual action than "identity". With new session you probably expect "restart" of browser. Or lets to rename it to just "Restart Browser", it still technically is not entirely accurate but very close to what Torbrowser should to do by this button. (Torbrowser should to restart in theory, only then it can guarantee something and to solve many leaking bugs happens without restart. Alas, it's too expensive to implement in practice)

The main reason I'd suggest to stick with 'new identity' is because Tor users recognize the phrase by now. I believe it's accurate to assume that users can to learn something new, especially if new terms more close to reality.

Then this button "Restart Browser", and yet one "New Circuit" placed on Navigation Toolbar could to resolve all confusions. "New Circuit" can to close active connection per tab(s) and should to send newnym signal using control connection.

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-torbutton added
Component: TorBrowserButton to Tor Browser

It should not start with "New", 'cause it doesn't mean termination of the current session. FF users know "session" as FF session. It is a new Tor session by meaning. But TBB doesn't allow several sessions simultaneously, so everything must be destroyed to create a new one. But this is not obvious for users.

Proposals: Clear all and restart Close all and restart Start from empty session Start from clear session Restart with new identity Restart as a new nym

Trac:
Severity: N/A to Normal
Sponsor: N/A to N/A

Trac:
Status: reopened to assigned
Owner: mikeperry to N/A
Cc: arma to arma, mikeperry

We still want to work on that it seems.

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Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Keywords: N/A deleted, ux-team added
Owner: N/A to tbb-team

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, user-feedback added
Status: assigned to new

Add magic gitlab keyword.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, gitlab-tb-torbutton added

mentioned in issue legacy/trac#9906 (moved)

moved from legacy/trac#9575 (moved)

added Bug UX labels and removed 1 deleted label

added New Identity label and removed 1 deleted label

TorBrowser can't to change or clear your identity. Torbutton can to clear history, to close tabs, to send newnym signal to Tor's controller by one click.

Tor by newnym signal can't to change or clear your identity. Tor can discard old circuits and begin to build new one. Circuit can't to be used as identity. IP address of exit node can't to be used as identity too (here you can discuss about ownership, leases, assigns, and nats at final).

Tor Browser does most of the above, therefore any identifying information is cleared when New Identity is used. If the browser doesn't contain any identifying information and if Tor rotates its circuits, then the user essentially has a New Identity from the perspective of any observer of the network, any observer of traffic leaving the Exit nodes, and any web server.

We could rename it as Restart Browser, but in that case we should delete the current implementation and actually restart the browser - that would solve many existing problems. The disadvantage of this is Tor Browser is tor's owning controller, and we're re-bootstrap if we restarted the browser right now.

closed

added BugSmashFund label