[email protected] writes: > Sounds really good. we have alot to learn from tor browser. I hope it wont > break functionality for normie use or we will loose alot of users. keep in > mind that Tor has become severely mainstream and is likely compromised on > many levels by the global elite cult that runs our country and our > corporations (monsanto anyone). at this point in the world it is no longer a > conspiracy theory. it is critical thought. critical fact. > > we can still learn from torbrowser, but we shouldn't ever truly depend on > anyone or anything as 100% safe. remember that. we don't live in a utopia > yet. that's for the next life.
A good option could be a browser which can optionally enable the plugins which make torbrowser torbrowser (enable/disable tor functionallity), and (make) opt-out the plugins which can be considered useful (fingerprinting etc). As torbrowser is upstreaming and the release rate seems to increase, maybe there's a chance to either base on that or learn from how they base on firefox. > > -- > Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! > https://tutanota.com > > 13. Aug 2016 15:47 by [email protected]: > > >> Hi, >> >> I had an exchange of ideas with other people after the recent security >> announcement of firefox[2]. >> The state of torbrowser was brought up in Guix as a problem and a >> discussion before, in the attempt to figure out how to package >> torbrowser compatible to our system. >> >> It was pointed out to me that the team which develops torbrowser is >> working together with mozilla to upstream their patchset[0][1]. >> With this new development and the importance of networks like tor, >> it would be a logic choice to switch to torbrowser as upstream of >> icecat and follow their development. >> At least that's one alternative I can come up with. >> This will of course not be torbrowser in its original form, as >> adjustments are made. Wether this differs from upstream in the default >> unique fingerprint of the browser has to be monitored, but I am not >> suggesting to build another torbrowser, just to use it as a more recent, >> well maintained firefox codebase for icecat. >> For your information, torbrowser recently switched to follow a different >> version of firefox than in the last years. >> >> I don't know about the size of your development team, it is assumed that >> it is rather small? In any case, if you need help with tasks, there are >> certainly some people interested in helping to make the transition to a >> new version. Personally I have limited resources, so I can only be of >> limited help. >> >> I do believe that torbrowser might also benefit from this if tb is >> chosen as upstream and fixes are upstreamed to either firefox or >> torbrowser depending on the nature of the fix. >> >> I am aware that this message does not cover every detail I have talked >> about on other lists and off-list, but I'd like to get in contact with >> you on this topic. >> >> >> Additional question, what's needed to get into the store which icecat >> uses? > http://patrol.psyced.org> is a extension which provides more >> functionality than https-everywhere. torbrowser 6.0.3 does not use >> firefox 48 as a base, but they might be working on a solution for the >> forced extensions+addons signing already which will start with FF 48. >> >> >> [0]: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1260929 >> [1]: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1173199 >> [2]: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-08/msg00277.html >> >> >> thanks and greetings, >> -- >> ♥Ⓐ ng0 >> For non-prism friendly talk find me on > http://www.psyced.org >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org -- ng0 For non-prism friendly talk find me on http://www.psyced.org -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
