Hi Nathan, Thanks for the note!
> We have promoted a privacy-enhanced configuration of Firefox Android for > a while (https://guardianproject.info/apps/proxymob/) including offering > our own Proxy enabling add-on. You should make sure your users are setting the OS proxy settings as well as Firefox's internal Gecko preferences. Firefox for Android straddles two worlds, and the Android part doesn't use Gecko's proxy settings. (See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507641 -- particularly my last comment.) > 1) Start building the GeckoView library from source ourselves, and > figure out which components we really need. It is very bloated, and the > current APK is humongous. Careful, this is a rabbit-hole. GeckoView depends on Gecko (naturally), and so trying to switch to a different build system might end up being frustrating. Furthermore, most of the size is stuff you can't cut out: libxul.so alone is 13MB in my dev build. But I'm sure we'll be trying to trim the fat wherever we can. > 2) Re-implement Orweb's various preferences into the new Orfox app, so > that users can easily choose to turn on/off javascript, clear cookies, > and so forth. > > 3) Connect with Mike Perry of Tor Project and start figuring out how the > Firefox patches / modifications he makes for Tor Browser can be applied > to the GeckoView builds. There is some interest within the Firefox mobile team for including some of this kind of functionality in Firefox itself, whether that be through an easier interface (accessible through GeckoView, through distributions, or just simplifying derivative browsers), or through including the actual feature itself so that a broader audience stands a chance of using it. If you ever find yourself asking "why isn't this in Firefox?", let us know! _______________________________________________ mobile-firefox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
