put up my partial "why aurora" faq answer
Roger Dingledine commited on 2011-09-29 01:38:14
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@@ -747,6 +747,27 @@ other than our official HTTPS website. |
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+<a id="TBBBrowserName"></a> |
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+<h3><a class="anchor" href="#TBBBrowserName">Why does TBB's browser window |
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+say Aurora?</a></h3> |
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+<p> |
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+We build Firefox from source in order to include our <a |
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+href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/tree/maint-2.2:/src/current-patches">Firefox |
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+privacy fixes</>. The default Firefox build process calls the resulting |
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+browser "Aurora". |
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+</p> |
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+<p> |
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+Don't be confused into thinking the browser you |
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+see is the same as the Firefox pre-releases that |
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+were also named Aurora. A future TBB release will <a |
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+href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2176">probably</a> |
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+have a more recognizable name like "Tor Browser". |
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+</p> |
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+<hr> |
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<a id="TBBSocksPort"></a> |
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#TBBSocksPort">I'm on OSX or Linux and |
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I want to run another application through the Tor launched by Tor |
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