[tor-dev] Fwd: Brendan Eich floats idea of Firefox implementing Tor as FF plug-in?

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb <ei8fdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Dave,

I have forwarded your mail to the tor-dev list as someone there might be interested/able to help with the boot2gecko (FF OS) work.

All the best,
Bernard		


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> From: Dave Huseby <dhuseby@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8 August 2013 19:48:35 GMT+01:00
> To: dev-privacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Brendan Eich floats idea of Firefox implementing Tor as FF plug-in?
> 
> So, the tor project maintains their own fork of firefox in the tor
> browser bundle.  I know that there have been efforts to try to merge
> their changes into our repos.  AFAIK, the main reason we haven't done so
> is because some of their changes modify the default behavior of firefox.
> 
> As a side note, I have a working b2g build of libevent, openssl +
> engines, and the tor daemon (all static).  I'm in the process of setting
> up the a good manifest so that others can recreate it.  It won't be
> buildable out of the box if you just clone my repos until I set up the
> manifest correctly.  But I've completed all of the work making
> Android.mk files so that the three pieces build as b2g/external/*.  If
> anybody wants to take a look/help, my repos are here: github.com/dhuseby
> All of my changes are in b2g branches in the libevent, openssl, and tor
> forks.
> 
> -dave
> 
> On 08/08/2013 09:48 AM, Sid Stamm wrote:
>> On 8/8/13 8:52 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
>>> "Maybe we should just adopt, support, and bundle Tor in Firefox..."
>>> [1]
>>> 
>>> It's early days, and just a comment on Twitter, but I wonder what
>>> others have to say.
>>> 
>>> Good or bad idea? I would say (without too much thinking): turned-off
>>> by default, but available. Exciting possibilities.
>> 
>> Let me turn it around: what do you think?  Why would you like to see this?
>> 
>> I think it's interesting, and at the very least we could work more
>> closely with the Tor engineers to make each others software better.
>> 
>> -Sid
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Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb

IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org

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