tor bundled browser should start just the browser when vidalia & tor already runs

Steps to reproduce

1. $ ./start-tor-browser
2. wait for the browser window to appear
3. just close it
4. $ ./start-tor-browser now it complains about another vidalia process running. a better behavior would be just to launch the browser again.

Trac:
Username: lijtac

added component::applications/tor bundles/installation needs-triage owner::mikeperry priority::medium reporter::lijtac resolution::wontfix status::closed type::enhancement labels

or at least there should be a ./just-launch-the-browser-since-tor-and-vidalia-is-already-running or something like this.

Trac:
Username: lijtac

Trac:
Component: - Select a component to Tor bundles/installation
Owner: N/A to erinn

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBCloseBrowser says "We're working on a way to make this possible on all platforms. Please be patient.". Do we have tickets for this already?

#6090 (closed) has more discussion.

There's also #5693 (closed) which should probably be closed as a duplicate.

And see also #4235 (closed), #4258 (closed), #4262 (closed) for related topics. It seems people can't agree on what ought to happen when the browser closes. Vidalia 0.3.x implemented a popup window when the browser closes, to ask the user what she wants to do. That's fine, but a) it doesn't support what this ticket wants, b) you have to choose right then, and there's no way to later run the browser, and c) none of our TBB users have Vidalia 0.3.x currently.

#5693 (closed) is not a duplicate. It's requesting a feature in TBB-Vidalia which would be much easier to implement than magic shell-script goo to relaunch TBB-Firefox.

Probable assigned to wrong person.

It's a real mess. Too many components involved. There are so many tickets and conflicting solutions.

There needs to be someone in charge, who will that be? Mike?

Then the solutions have to be collected, discussed and then you'll need a roadmap. Otherwise the "We're working on a way to make this possible on all platforms. Please be patient." can be removed.

In case it will be a shell script solution, two people offered help. (Aaron Paden and me) While it can be probable no exclusive shell script solution, some help from other components may still be required.

Trac:
Cc: N/A to adrelanos@riseup.net
Owner: erinn to mikeperry
Status: new to assigned

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Keywords: N/A deleted, needs-triage added

Vidalia is unmaintained, deprecated. Using the tor-launcher add-on now.

The very issue that lijtac described in original report does does not happen with tor-launcher.

Therefore this can be closed as wontfix because no one is working on Vidalia anymore anyhow.

Trac:
Resolution: N/A to wontfix
Status: assigned to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #6943 (closed)