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Allow user to select browser #395

Open Go4Launch opened 8 years ago

Go4Launch commented 8 years ago

Suggest allowing user to set the browser of their choice instead of the OS default browser. Example: Allow configuration so that URLs can be passed to TheTorBundle, Chrome, Firefox, etc, even if they are not the default. Can be useful for maintaining anonymity if a URL is received (sending links to TTB for example).

Links may need some sanity checks on the URL parsing to ensure they cannot pipe to other executables or otherwise do bad things. Not my area of expertise but I figure calling another binary could be problematic if not handled cleanly.

special commented 8 years ago

I think I would simplify this to just "Tor Browser" or "Default (System) Browser".

The issue right now is that we can't tell Tor Browser to open a URL, even if we know its path. See the upstream bug https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14977 about this

ghost commented 7 years ago

I suggest "Allow use to copy the link", not opening a browser.

Settings:

When I click URL in the conversation, do: [ pulldown menu ][V] Do nothing Copy the link to clipboard (and show small notification to window title) Open system browser (NOT RECOMMEND)