Hi, You may see the discussion about making it easier to switch between security levels in Tor Browser: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21065
Best wishes, 1. Mar 2017 23:36 by jonathan.femid...@autistici.org: > In Tor Browser 6.5, is there a way to choose per-site security settings? > > Ideally, from a security perspective, users would be able to use the "High" > setting, and this would *just work* on all sites. (Onion > Security Settings > > High.) > > However, some websites, and some webmail clients, are built in a way that > requires the user to execute some JavaScript. For these websites and webmail > clients, the only two options seem to be: > > 1. Change the browser security settings (Onion > Security Settings > Medium). > > 2. Click NoScript icon > "Temporarily allow all this page". > > These both have disadvantages. Respectively: > > 1. If the user subsequently opens a new tab to visit a different website, > this will now only be at the Medium security setting instead of the High > setting, even if this latter website would work fine with the High setting. > So the user's security gets reduced on the new site, unnecessarily. > Alternatively, if the user is keeping one or more tabs open for the first > site, while using other tabs to browse other sites that are less trusted or > don't require the Medium setting, then the user has to keep adjusting the > browser security level each time they want to interact with the first site in > one of those tabs. TL;DR: switching tabs shouldn't require changing security > settings to make the contents of those tabs function. > > 2. "Temporarily allow all this page" seems to be less secure than the Medium > security setting. A user might trust a website (or *need* to use it) just > enough to be willing to reduce the security level to Medium in order to make > it function, but no lower than that. "Temporarily allow all this page" seems > to be more like reducing the security level for that site to Low. > > So, is there a way for the user to keep the security level at High for all > sites except for a few specific sites, and to set the latter to Medium? > > N.B. I have not yet encountered any websites that require the security level > to be set to Low, but perhaps such websites do exist. If so, then please > consider my question to extend to allowing a per-site setting of Low for > those websites. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
