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Cool, but why not Opera in off-road mode?
by alan_cx 13y ago
Cool, but why not Opera in off-road mode?
- L4mppu 13y agoBecause opera is just reskinned chrome.
- gst 13y agoFirefox is open-source and can be legally modified. Opera isn't.
- alan_cx 13y agoTrue but not relevant. This isn't a privacy thing, its just purely about accessing pirate bay and other blocked sites. So open source and so on is irrelevant in that goal. Edit: Quote added. "“This browser is just to circumvent censorship, to remove limits on accessing sites governments don’t want you to know about,” The Pirate Bay notes."
- gst 13y agoDoes the Opera license allow to distribute modified versions setup to automatically use Tor for .onion URLs, without getting special permissions from Opera Software? In addition: Why Opera? I don't see any significant advantages over Firefox. There are probably more users who are familiar with Firefox than with Opera.
- shocks 13y agoAlso, being open source, one can evaluate the source code and check the "secure browser" isn't leaking secrets.
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- anu_gupta 13y agoMaybe they just wanted to use Firefox. Why not explain why they should use Opera?
- 3pt14159 13y agoBecause some people don't use un-free software.
- drivingmenuts 13y agoLooks like they're basing it on previous work done by the Tor Browser Bundle (which actually does have Mac and Linux clients).