Well, if I had an 8-core machine with 4+GB RAM, or even a single-core machine with over 1 GHz and at least 1GB RAM, I'd probably have four browser profiles for Firefox alone: one for Tor (Torbutton or whatever you guys decide to use, plus Noscript, AdBlockPlus, Cookie Monster, etc.), one for JonDo (with JonDoFox), one more complicated setup that allows me to whitelist sites I trust, e.g. my bank, while still making sure that any third party or other unwhitelisted content is loaded through a proxy (using FoxyProxy, Noscript, etc.), and a final one for guests only that does not use a proxy but does have AdBlockPlus, noscript (blacklist mode), Cookie Monster (blacklist mode) and RefControl (delete referrer when switching to a new domain)... for basic privacy protection that won't drive my guests nuts.
However, seeing has how my computer is single core, less than 1 GHz, and has less than 1GB RAM, running one instance of a modern browser is hard enough on the poor thing. Multiple browsers, let alone full-blown virtualization, isn't a realistic option. Thus I am using JonDoFox, because it lets me switch between JonDo, Tor, a third proxy of my choosing (if desired) and no proxy, without having to run multiple browsers. True, there are a few features I might wish for, my nothing major than impacts my usability in any significant way. I think the key here is that there isn't one solution that will work for everyone. By all means create a nice Tor browser, designed to be used for Tor only. This is probably the best thing for most people are newer hardware who don't have to use any special accessible software for the blind or whatever. But document the changes you make and what people using other browsers would have to do in order to blend in with the Tor crowd as best they can even if they are using just a single instance of Firefox for all browsing, some other browser that works on their platform (Firefox doesn't run everywhere), some text or braille-only browser (if they are blind or just don't want a GUI), or some special browser-for-the-blind, or whatever. Yes, I realize many browsers cannot be configured to provide the same level of security as custom Firefox, at least not without delving into the source code, but not everyone has the hardware/software/ability to see/financial/other resources to have an ideal setup. Myself, I will probably continue to use JonDoFox, unless they remove their proxy switcher, it which case I'll probably be off using some other third party solution custom configured to meet my needs. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk