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torbrowser-launcher package

  1. Bug #1933886
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1933886

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Thomas Ward (teward) wrote : Re: tor browser not launching in impish

Okay, so, I did some heavy hardcore digging.

The core execution string at the deepest level is something like this:

`$HOME/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox --class "Tor Browser" -profile $HOME/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser'profile.default "http://cnn.com"`

With this in mind, I tested this on Ubuntu 21.04 direct which has Wayland and it worked. However, the same Firefox executable failed on Lubuntu 21.04. I have crash data (attached).

However, this is not an issue with torbrowser-launcher's package, because all it does is start and execute the `start-tor-browser` shell file that Tor Browser upstream has provided, which in turn executes its flavor of Firefox, and that flavor of Firefox crashes.

This is not necessarily an issue in the *package* torbrowser-launcher but an upstream Tor Browser problem, so I'm going to leave this bug as Incomplete unless someone can prove it's an issue with the torbrowser-launcher package.