Not sure if we should take into account corner cases like people using not TorLauncher but a system-wide tor. If so, we should retitle the ticket accordingly. In any case, what I'd like to avoid is a Tor Browser showing everything is okay but no tor is launched to get used for browsing.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-usability added

brade and I have a possible fix:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/brade/torbutton.git/commit/b9229102ee6e5098c11af49a04ca0669a0c02fd4

The basic idea is to show failure on the about:tor page when Torbutton cannot connect to the proxy (i.e., to tor). We tested it by disabling Tor Launcher.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, MikePerry201405R added

Merged. Will appear in the next Torbutton tag, which will be used in 3.6.2 and 4.0-alpha.

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Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed