Firefox is flirting with idea the to adopt Tor as a feature [1,2]. This
could easily multiply [3] the number of daily users on the Tor network
[4]. These daily users are not likely to add new capacity to the
network. Is the Tor network able to handle a sudden peak in usage (there
is some
I've no idea about the capacity, but I will say that, in a general
sense, this is a relatively insecure method of using Tor. Recent
events have highlighted this, naturally, but Tor works best as network
infrastructure where split tunnelling (to borrow a term from VPN
architecture) is not allowed.
You can't have any of these configurations without a browser to begin
with, and serious support from Mozilla would make a number of things
better for Tor users in any number of deployment configurations,
including (and perhaps especially) high security ones.
As for capacity and all of that, we've
