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Does the tor browser fork stay up to date quickly? I would be quite worried about stale browsers in this day and age, to an extent at least
by rtpg 4y ago
Does the tor browser fork stay up to date quickly? I would be quite worried about stale browsers in this day and age, to an extent at least
- pabs3 4y agoTor Browser updates often come the same day as Mozilla releases, sometimes a bit longer.
- notpushkin 4y agoI believe Tor is collaborating with Mozilla very closely, to the point that Mozilla includes patches from Tor Browser now: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Tor_Uplift
- JoachimS 4y agoAnd Mullvad is a Tor project sponsor.
- l8rlump 4y agoI recently discovered the useful Firefox about:config setting “resistfingerprinting”, which I believe came from this collaboration.
- cpeterso 4y agoYes, but beware that many websites are broken when “resistFingerprinting” is enabled. That’s why that mode is not enabled by default or an opt-in option in Firefox’s settings UI.
- notpushkin 4y agoI've ran into a couple ones that have some canvas-based features that break when resistFingerprinting is on. They get some visible noise added on top (which does indeed thwart fingerprinting, but also makes it harder / weirder to use those features).
- l8rlump 4y agoI believe you can turn off the canvas-based meddling per-site. There's a small icon that appears on the left of the URL input box on affected sites that allows you to do this.
- brnt 4y agoYes. They are aware that this is one attack vector they need to protect their users against.
- cpeterso 4y agoThe Tor desktop browser is based on Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release), Mozilla’s LTS branch of Firefox that receives security fixes for 14 months. The Tor Android browser is based on Mozilla’s regular Firefox Android browser, updated every four weeks.