Nathan, Thanks for the heads up. Very interesting work. We should always keep looking to see if there are some simple changes we could upstream into Firefox too.
Thanks again, Finkle ----- Original Message ----- > Thought some of you might be interested in the work we are doing in > trying to bring Tor Browser to Android. Thanks for all the help thus > far, and great documentation! > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [guardian-dev] Orfox: New Firefox-based Android Private/Secure > Browser > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 12:49:33 -0400 > From: Nathan of Guardian <[email protected]> > Organization: The Guardian Project > To: guardian-dev <[email protected]> > Based on work done this summer by Amogh Pradeep during his Google > Summer of Code stint with me, we now have a real working version of > Firefox/Fennec for Android with all the necessary defaults changed to > match Tor Browser's defaults as closely as possible. We also remove > the Android permissions for things like camera, mic, GPS and turn off > webrtc. > You can see the primary commits we've made here (many by me, but > started successfully by Amogh): > https://github.com/guardianproject/gecko-dev/commits/adaa37949dbba690ed0392c1fd004b006e73bfdf > We still need to figure out which preferences and features map between > the desktop mobile browser and the Android version, so there is quite > a bit of work to do. For instance, even though the preference from Tor > Browser is set to start in private browsing mode, it doesn't work at > all in the Android app. Also, we haven't applied any of the lower > level source patches to the gecko engine yet, or included any of the > default extensions like HTTPS Everywhere or NoScript. Sorting out and > resolving these differences is what is on deck for this fall, and > everyone is welcome to join in. In addition, the recent audit work > from iSec > (https://blog.torproject.org/blog/isec-partners-conducts-tor-browser-hardening-study) > is also on our minds, and figuring out how we can live up to the goals > of that study on a mobile device is also very important. > The current build successfully passes the DNSLeakTest.com tests and > passed the HTML5 video leak issue here: > http://xordern.net/why-you-really-shouldn't-use-orweb-anymore.html > ip-check.info still doesn't see the browser as being Tor Browser, so > there are some differences yet to resolve there. > The whole project is automatically building on our jenkins server, and > you'll find all the links to APKs and our test build repo below. > Over the next few months we hope to launch this as our new official > browser for Orbot, and deprecate Orweb as quickly as possible. > *** > Main project repo: > https://github.com/guardianproject/OrfoxFennec > Our fork of Mozilla's Gecko-Dev: > https://github.com/guardianproject/gecko-dev/tree/adaa37949dbba690ed0392c1fd004b006e73bfdf > (which we can rebase on the original as needed) > Nightly/dev builds direct APK download here: > https://guardianproject.info/builds/OrfoxFennec/ > OR our fdroid test build repo: > https://dev.guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=F8ED4C73C125E7A67F99DB269480DAF50BE1758952E07EE5ABF116FE4B2DB1E8 > *** > +n > _______________________________________________ > Guardian-dev mailing list > Post: [email protected] > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] > Or visit: > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/nathan%40guardianproject.info > You are subscribed as: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev
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