Tor Browser Bundle

Sorry for raising a dead thread, but TorBrowser is based on Firefox ESR (currently 17.0.6). I managed to get as far as getting the 1P 3.9.12 ESR extension installed (per instructions in this thread). The extension seems to load properly, but when I enter my password in the field and press Enter, nothing happens (the message "Connecting..." appears, counting seconds, apparently forever). Anyone have an idea where it might be going off the rails?

Sorry for the delay in replying. Yes, the 1P extension is working fine in both Safari and Chrome, in both Windows 7 and Mac OS X.

The symptoms I posted above were using TorBrowser on Windows 7. I just tried TorBrowser in Mac OS X and had a different experience. On entering my password in the field and pressing enter, I saw the "Connecting..." message for 1 or 2 seconds, then "Syncing..." for another 3 or 4 seconds, then the 1P pane popped up; it appeared to have my 1P info but also the red 'stop sign' warning button that there is a problem with the helper. I restarted TorBrowser, and this time the 1P extension loaded without the warning button. So, it appears to be successful in Mac OS X!

One possible difference: I had vanilla Firefox installed on the Windows 7 machine. Maybe that caused a conflict with the ESR version Torbrowser uses... I'll try uninstalling vanilla FF on the Windows machine tomorrow and try TorBrowser there again tomorrow.

OK, I uninstalled vanilla FF on the Windows 7 machine. The 1P ESR extension is still installed in TorBrowser. I am still seeing the same symptoms as before (just seeing the "Connecting..." message forever). I notice that in the 1P Preferences (Browsers pane), the button for "Mozilla Firefox" is grayed out and says "Install Firefox Extension". I clicked on the Mozilla Firefox link to point 1P to the TorBrowser executable "tbb-firefox.exe", but the button is still grayed out. I wonder if that is significant?

I'd like to believe it's just an issue with how TorBrowser handles network connections, but in that case I don't understand why the 1P extension would work on the Mac OS X version but not the Windows 7 version. According to the TorBrowser connection settings dialog (i.e. the Firefox ESR connection settings dialog), it's using a SOCKS5 proxy at 127.0.0.1:9150 but explicitly excludes 127.0.0.1 from using the proxy (so I would think it would not interfere with 1P's operation, but I'm not an expert).

No worries, I understand that TorBrowser isn't supported, and I had read Stu's post. I was just trying to see if it could actually be made to work, and it appears it can in Mac OS X without hassle, and now also in Windows 7 with a bit more work.

I finally got it to work in Windows 7 by replacing the default Firefox profile with the TorBrowser profile (i.e. delete the default FF profile then move and rename the TB profile), and then using the TorBrowser/Firefox profile manager to launch TorBrowser using the default Firefox profile (easiest way to do this is to create a shortcut pointing to tbb-firefox.exe with the -p commandline switch).

Have I voided my warranty yet? ;)

Just posting this for reference in case it helps someone else. TBB 3.0 (currently in alpha) appears to hard-code the profile location to the PortableFirefox directory they use, so my method above of makingTBB use the official Firefox profile location will no longer work.

I have been able to get 1P to continue working by making hardlinks for the 1P extension in the other direction (i.e. let TBB 3.0 use its portable profile location and install the 1P extension there, but in the official Firefox profile location put hardlinks to the 1P files that are in the portable profile). I've only tested this on Windows so far (use the "mklink /h [link] [target]") command--shortcuts won't work) but I imagine it should work similarly on the Mac (again, using the "ln" command in Terminal--not aliases).

I found 3 files that seem related to 1P; not sure if they're all essential to this working but just in case I made hardlinks for each:

• "OnePassword.sqlite" (in the "..\Firefox\Profiles" folder)

• "onepassword@agilebits.com.xpi" (in the "..\Firefox\Profiles[defaultprofilename]\extensions" folder)

• "store.json" (in the "..\Firefox\Profiles[defaultfoldername]\jetpack\onepassword@agilebits.com\simple-storage" folder)

Obviously, this isn't supported and will break if the location of the 1P extension files change or later versions start using different files (make new links in that case). Also the file locations might be different on the Mac, haven't checked yet.

I should also have put a disclaimer earlier that I don't know if there are any security/privacy implications for TBB to have 1P linked in to TBB (I don't think so, at least not more than having the 1P extension installed in official Firefox, but I'm not qualified to say if it does or not). If you have unusually-high privacy concerns as your reasons for using TBB (that's not me, obviously), you might want to not hack around it like this; but you probably already knew that.

Hope this is helpful.

Just got 1Password 4 (unfortunately I was not available for beta testing, but thanks for the offer Sara). It looks very nice!

Unfortunately, it appears that 3.x versions of the browser extensions aren't compatible with 1P4 (have I got that right?). And it looks like the latest version of the Firefox ESR browser extension is 3.9.12ESR. I tried to install the official 4.x browser extension, it says it's not compatible with this version of Firefox (current versions of TBB are built off of Firefox 17.0.9 ESR; it sounds like the Tor project is working to migrate to 23.x ESR but this may not happen until 17.x ESR reaches official end-of-life).

I'm not sure if it's a simple compatibility check that could be disabled or if it actually uses functionality 17.0.9 ESR can't provide... I may experiment with that some other time (have to head to bed now). For now, using the new 1Password Mini app in the menu bar is a workaround (1Password has spoiled me... copy/pasting login IDs and passwords separately seems so klunky now!).

BTW, 1Password Mini is a great improvement on the old menubar widget--kudos!