[tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread hmoh
Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? I mean, I am not using Tor for all my browsing. That would be to slow and also waste Tor resources. For very basic non critical use I am using a normal firefox. I've done everything I found to tweak the privacy, to slow down data min

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM, wrote: > Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? I am looking for such a solution too. On Windows, you can use portable Firefox and install the extensions. On GNU, I realize the only available portable Firefox is the tbb package and I ha

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread b.g. white
Firefox Nightly and Firefox UX are both available as portables I believe. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM,   wrote: >> Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? > > I am looking for such a solu

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
For various reasons it sounds like there is a lot of demand for separating Tor from the TBB. It would be nice if we could fund the development of features like this. I imagine some of us would be more willing to donate if certain features would be added as a result. I donate a fair amount of spare

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread andrew
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:40:39PM -0500, tmail...@errtech.com wrote 1.9K bytes in 44 lines about: : For various reasons it sounds like there is a lot of demand for separating : Tor from the TBB. It would be nice if we could fund the development of We already offer this. See the Expert Bundle, ht

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-23 Thread Chris
> We already offer this. See the Expert Bundle, > https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#windows. That is for Microsoft Windows and am pretty confident that it is not the same thing. The TBB has plug-ins and other configuration changes in it to enhance security such as the HTTPS Eve

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-24 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi > Firefox Nightly and Firefox UX are both available as portables I believe. > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM,   wrote: >>> Is it possible to adjust the Tor Browser for use without Tor? Do you mean the ZI

Re: [tor-talk] browser with best privacy without using the Tor network

2011-12-27 Thread cgp 3cg
> Do you mean the ZIP version of Firefox nightly? Even though not > installation is needed, those are not really portable as they leave > files on the home directory. You can place your profile in a separate location (USB, TrueCrypt archive, etc) and then start Firefox: /path/to/firefox -no-rem