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Original post https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2016-08/msg00006.html 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
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