As far as I know, Aurora is based on something called "Firefox Portable". Last time I checked, this thing isn't even open source. Can someone clarify this? Or should I open a new thread?
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Geoff Down <geoffd...@fastmail.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012, at 09:50 AM, Marco Bonetti wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > though perhaps it would not provide as strong anonymity as Aurora - > any views? > > Errr... I think you missed a point ;-) > > Aurora IS Firefox or, at least, it's the release name. > > When building custom version of Mozilla products from source you can't > > use the same name as the official packages. That's the TL;DR of the > > Mozilla Public Policy. > > TBB is a custom version of Mozilla Firefox built by the Tor Project and > > shipped together with Vidalia and some other programs and libraries. > > So, if you want to have something which looks like TBB on a PowerPC Mac, > > install Vidalia, grab a copy of TenFourFox and install required > > extensions. > > > > Beware this is not enough! > > > > TBB has been built to address a specific threat model and Firefox has > > been patched and configured accordingly to that model so I'm the first to > > warn you that "just run Firefox with required extensions" is close enough > > but not the same thing. > > > No, that was my point - TenFourFox does not have the patches that the > TBB Firefox has, so even with the same extensions it will not be as > secure. > GD > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk