Windows TBB Firefox breaks when Valida calls Tor *not* as ./tor.exe
RE: TBB v2.3.25-4 on Windows 7
I just configured Vidalia to use the Tor within TBB dir as C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe, but when I start TBB Firefox can't connect to Internet. Then I tried the default .\tor.exe (which is the same exact location as C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe) and TBB can access Internet no problem.
So, it seems like there are some bugs with using a Tor located anywhere other than .\tor.exe, and using C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\Tor Browser\App\tor.exe instead of .\tor.exe prevents Firefox from getting online.
This ticket is related to #8367 (moved) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8376
I made this ticket major priority because as is I can no longer use Tor alpha with TBB. The Tor team doesn't build alpha versions of TBB for Windows users, unlike they do for their more favorite OSes :( So, if this isn't fixed it appears Windows users are placed further back into the closest, being we can't even use (nor test for bugs with TBB) a Tor alpha build.
Please fix this, and please don't take many months to do so. I understand you're all overworked, and you all are doing you best, however, it does seem Windows problems are normally lower priority than problems with other OSes.