Librefox, mainstream Firefox with a better privacy and security
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I know about the "Oxford comma" (I think that's how is called), as they taught me to never put a comma and a conjunction in a list of things and the two spaces after a sentence...
Yup, above it's a case of missing "Oxford comma"... ^__^;
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You won't see such improvements for non-free (proprietary) software because it wouldn't be legal to prepare or distribute them and because modifying binaries is remarkably difficult. Any improvements the proprietor distributes are untrustworthy unless they are freed. I think it's great that software freedom exists and that people are willing and able to distribute variants that serve their needs.
Bummer that the performance for videos and stuff is apparently worse. I assume it's because the developer doesn't have access to the PGO/LTCG resources that are used for official Firefox builds, but maybe hardware video playback has to be disabled for privacy reasons? The readme doesn't seem to say why it's slow.
I'm guessing it lacks some of the more obnoxious features used by the Tor Browser bundle, such as the nag dialog when you change the window size.
That particular window geometry being common for all tor users may be a good way to keep your browser fingerprint anonymous, but I wager that screen geometry for general internet access is less common than [fullscreen on whatever common size of screen you own.] I suspect that if your traffic isn't coming out of a known tor exit node, you're better off using a normal window geometry.
And if you do use actual full screen, that's probably even more uniquely-identifying!
Almost always, maybe I'm weird like that...
>"Your window decorations, desktop environment"
For most people the signal that gets through will be "windows" or "mac". Anybody else may benefit from sending the "window geometry typically used by the tor browser but not coming from a known tor exit node" signal. Maybe.
>"and browser UI cruft "
That an interesting point, does enabling or disabling the bookmarks toolbar trigger the window geometry nag dialog in the Tor Browser bundle?
Right, so you're definitely producing a very unusual fingerprint in terms of browser dimensions. Yours is exactly the kind of use case that the Tor browser nag popup is supposed to help.
We do not recommend connecting over Tor on Librefox classic version (because of the missing Librefox-Tor-Addons, they are only included in the tor version for obvious reasons), use instead Librefox-Tor version if your threat model calls for it, or for accessing hidden services (Thus said tor settings have been enabled since v2 on all Librefox versions for user toriffying/proxifying their entire connection).
... but they're shipping modified code under the FF logo.
Is this okay?
As somebody who donates to Mozilla, I wish there was a paid version of firefox that removed that sort of thing.
Looks like it's a placeholder. https://github.com/intika/Librefox/issues/20