05-10-2013, 06:51 PM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:So, Peter, to make sure I and others understand, is there a difference in the FF included in the Tor Package and the standard plain-vanilla downloadable Mozilla Firefox browser? Same in Linux as in Windoz?
No difference to the code. The Tor bundle browser is exactly the same as the regular stand-alone one. The only change is that the one included in the Tor bundle has had many of the default settings changed, especially those in the 'options/security' tab, because the default settings enable all manner of convenience features that leak information about you to those looking for it. The downside is that using the browser in screwed down mode makes for a 'less 'convenient browsing experience' - as the ad men might put it - because those features have been disabled.
Also, there's no difference between the windows and Linux versions, its just that the windows OS COULD (maybe even has been already?) be made to do things with your use of the browser that Linux could not, without the Linux community spotting it quickly and raising merry hell.
Peter Presland
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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