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
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