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Expose Tor log in `brave://tor`

See original GitHub issue

Description

A friend of mine told me that he’s found our Tor support quite unreliable on his Linux desktop (it’s possible he’s running into #8076 or #8129 at the moment).

What he suggested is that we expose the tor daemon log somewhere so that tech-savvy users can more easily figure out what’s wrong (and send us useful bug reports).

Orbot on Android does this in a nice way, but perhaps all we need for an MVP would be to redirect the daemon log file to an in-memory structure and make it viewable from an internal URL like brave://tor.

Designs

The Tor connection status is displayed prominently on the NTP with a flashing indicator to draw attention and show progress. This would give some hint that the reason why NTP is not connecting to a webpage that a user entered is because it’s waiting for this Tor connection to complete. For users who are so inclined to dig into the details, View logs links to brave://tor.

The new, simplified NTP design ensures that no scrolling would occur for all but the very smallest screens - the content height is not much longer than an extension panel.

connection

User flow

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Search bar

The search bar has DDG set as the default. The user can click on the search bar dropdown to select a different SE for a particular search query. image

Keyboarding

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Assets

Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/5THkuEtO2Ewn9LfqrHZP9a/Desktop-Private-and-TOR-Windows?node-id=102%3A2574

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Reactions:1
  • Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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karenkliucommented, Sep 21, 2020

Designs added!

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fmariercommented, May 21, 2021

Now available at brave://tor-internals/.

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