Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread Marco Bonetti
- Original Message - though perhaps it would not provide as strong anonymity as Aurora - any views? Errr... I think you missed a point ;-) Aurora IS Firefox or, at least, it's the release name. When building custom version of Mozilla products from source you can't use the same name as

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread AK
As far as I know, Aurora is based on something called Firefox Portable. Last time I checked, this thing isn't even open source. Can someone clarify this? Or should I open a new thread? On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Geoff Down geoffd...@fastmail.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012, at 09:50 AM,

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread AK
So are you telling me that standard Firefox depends on closed source binaries as well? I don't care about how free the license is. I'm talking about whether it can be built completely from source code. On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Koh Choon Lin 2choon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi On Sat, Jan

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:16:05 -0700 AK aka...@gmail.com wrote: So are you telling me that standard Firefox depends on closed source binaries as well? I don't care about how free the license is. I'm talking about whether it can be built completely from source code. I suggest starting with the

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread AK
Actually, the Tor Browser bundle is built from Firefox Portable binaries. From README.dev: Using build-scripts/Makefile it is possible to create a working USB Tor bundle. It's limitations include: - It uses the FirefoxPortable binaries However, they do say you can build a custom version of

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-01-27, AK aka...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, the Tor Browser bundle is built from Firefox Portable binaries. From README.dev: Using build-scripts/Makefile it is possible to create a working USB Tor bundle. It's limitations include: - It uses the FirefoxPortable binaries README.dev

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-27 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:13:41 -0700 AK aka...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, the Tor Browser bundle is built from Firefox Portable binaries. It's built from source. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x74ED336B ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-26 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 12:26 PM, cgp 3cg wrote: Hi list,  is it possible to build just the Aurora/Torbutton part of  TorBrowserBundle? If so, is it likely to be remotely possible on OSX 10.4? Not sure about OSX, but under Linux you can edit the 'start-tor-browser' script and change

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-26 Thread Marco Bonetti
- Original Message - TBB isn't available for OSX PPC, so I'd have to build it - a mammoth task, but since I already have the latest Tor running and a working Vidalia, building Aurora would be a sensible step if possible, to get away from my outdated browser. Mozilla moved away from

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-26 Thread Geoff Down
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 03:54 PM, Marco Bonetti wrote: - Original Message - TBB isn't available for OSX PPC, so I'd have to build it - a mammoth task, but since I already have the latest Tor running and a working Vidalia, building Aurora would be a sensible step if possible,

Re: [tor-talk] Aurora only build

2012-01-25 Thread cgp 3cg
Hi list,  is it possible to build just the Aurora/Torbutton part of  TorBrowserBundle? If so, is it likely to be remotely possible on OSX 10.4? Not sure about OSX, but under Linux you can edit the 'start-tor-browser' script and change the line: ./App/vidalia --datadir Data/Vidalia/ to be: