Onion Browser can't save anything.

[hokaneko]

I feel like being in a dark net museum. You look, you don't touch !
Why is Onion browser the only browser in the apple store -- and the only browser I've ever met on any OS -- that allow you to browse but not to download anything? It's like walking in a super market and leaving empty handed. The Dark Net is a huge part of the whole internet and it's a real shame to discover interesting websites (everybody talk about guns, drugs and girls but illegal websites are a ridiculous part of what you can access there) without having the possibility to download any kind of file. The iOs menus are blocked. And except the "Copy" button, nothing works...
Really this app rocks but this limitation sucks. Everytime I need to download I use Vidalia back on the PC. Apple forbid you to implement a download button ? is it too complex to program ? More than the encryption and privacy part of your project ?! I'm looking forward for this cos' personnaly after 1.3.3 and 1.3.4 I don't think I'll buy any newer version that enable me to go fishing in deep sea without going home with some fish.
Thanks for the hard work. Good luck and please keep us informed wether it's an apple restriction or an improvement yet to come soon.

[mtigas]

It’s an improvement I haven’t had time to work on, but it’s also partially an iOS limitation (there is no “download” functionality in Safari, except for images).

If you look at other (non-Tor) browser apps like iCab, they implement everything on their own and store the downloaded data within the app itself. It’d be a significant bit of work to recreate that here. Been too busy to work on new features for the past few months, unfortunately. (This app is just a side project of mine.)

[Closing since this is a dupe of issue #10.]

[mtigas]

Also: you don’t have to “buy a new version” since once you’ve bought the app through the App Store, all updates are free.

[hokaneko]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer to my thread. I'm sorry if this one was, in fact, a double from #10 but I really was hoping that the new version would implement a button "save as". I live in a developping country in South East Asia and connections are so slow here (average 15k/s maximum ....) that when I come across something nice I would like to save it. If I want to share funny and sometimes amazing discoveries of the deep web with friends I have no other choice (using my iPod 4) than to make a screenshot. Frustrating ;)
Anyway Onion Browser is an amazing piece of work when you know that Tor Project made a Tor for nearly everything (android, Mac, Pc, Linux, Unix, Ubuntu, Symbian, etc) except for iOs users. Even more amazing knowing that this is only one of your side projects.
Thanks a lot for the hard work. Well I sincerely hope that you'll find a way to implement a save button even if it's only to "save image as", it would be great for me and probably many users. For what I read here and there it's, with minor security issues, the main complaint.

Good luck for the rest of your developpements in progress. I hope you'll find time for this update in a next release. Sincerely.

Mathias
http://mcassar.free.fr

On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:34 PM, "Mike Tigas" notifications@github.com wrote:

It’s an improvement I haven’t had time to work on, but it’s also partially an iOS limitation (there is no “download” functionality in Safari, except for images).

If you look at other (non-Tor) browser apps like iCab, they implement everything on their own and store the downloaded data within the app itself. It’d be a significant bit of work to recreate that here. Been too busy to work on new features for the past few months, unfortunately. (This app is just a side project of mine.)

[Closing since this is a dupe of issue #10.]

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[ghost]

It needs a “share” button like all other browsers. Right now one cannot export/share e.g. sci-hub articles to a pdf viewer.