Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Icecat future development

[ng0]

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> Sounds really good. we have alot to learn from tor browser. I hope it wont 
> break functionality for normie use or we will loose alot of users. keep in 
> mind that Tor has become severely mainstream and is likely compromised on 
> many levels by the global elite cult that runs our country and our 
> corporations (monsanto anyone). at this point in the world it is no longer a 
> conspiracy theory. it is critical thought. critical fact.
>
> we can still learn from torbrowser, but we shouldn't ever truly depend on 
> anyone or anything as 100% safe. remember that. we don't live in a utopia 
> yet. that's for the next life.

A good option could be a browser which can optionally enable the plugins
which make torbrowser torbrowser (enable/disable tor functionallity),
and (make) opt-out the plugins which can be considered useful
(fingerprinting etc).

As torbrowser is upstreaming and the release rate seems to increase,
maybe there's a chance to either base on that or learn from how they
base on firefox.
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> 13. Aug 2016 15:47 by address@hidden:
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>
>> 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,
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>> ♥Ⓐ  ng0
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