Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 21 months ago
#12966 new enhancement
OSX: tor dmg encourages installation in /Applications
| Reported by: | trams | Owned by: | tbb-team |
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| Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
| Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | osx |
| Cc: | Actual Points: | ||
| Parent ID: | Points: | ||
| Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
The TBB for OSX encourages installation in /Application (by having a symlink in the DMG to the system application folder.)
Instead the symlink should point to ~/Applications
This will allow the app to be installed without admin privs, and also allow the user to write to the profile inside of the TBB directory, even if they are not admins.
Child Tickets
Change History (6)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
| Component: | - Select a component → Tor Browser |
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| Owner: | set to tbb-team |
comment:2 follow-up: 3 Changed 5 years ago by
comment:3 follow-up: 4 Changed 5 years ago by
Replying to gk:
Is there something special about ~/Applications? We had ~/Desktop first but it turned out that normal Mac users were confused...
I don't think there is anything special about ~/Applications. The problem with putting the Tor Browser app there is that it won't be visible when someone accesses the /Applications folder from the Mac OS dock. So it might be hard for people to find TB after they install it.
If someone cannot install in /Applications, won't Mac OS tell them that? Then they can choose to install elsewhere. But maybe that is too confusing.
Although Tor Browser is a weird beast (because it writes to its app bundle), I suspect that /Applications works fine for most people. But then again I thought ~/Desktop was a great choice.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by
I don't think there is anything special about ~/Applications. The problem with putting the Tor Browser app there is that it won't be visible when someone accesses the /Applications folder from the Mac OS dock. So it might be hard for people to find TB after they install it.
If someone cannot install in /Applications, won't Mac OS tell them that? Then they can choose to install elsewhere. But maybe that is too confusing.
Although Tor Browser is a weird beast (because it writes to its app bundle), I suspect that /Applications works fine for most people. But then again I thought ~/Desktop was a great choice.
The extra attributes of ~/Applications besides not having to be admin:
Placing the application in ~/Applications makes it appear in Launchpad.
The folder carries the same icon as the /Application folder in finder.
comment:6 Changed 21 months ago by
| Severity: | → Normal |
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Is there something special about ~/Applications? We had ~/Desktop first but it turned out that normal Mac users were confused...