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The Tor project forks Firefox
The Tor project has announced
that it is moving away from its Firefox extension and toward the
maintenance of its own fork of the browser. "The Tor Browser bug
[fixes] on the other hand are more directly usable by Firefox in its own
Private Browsing Mode, which makes them more likely to merge quicker, and
be maintained long-term. Also, because we are releasing our own
Firefox-based browser, we will also have more control over experimenting
with them and deploying these fixes to our users rapidly, as opposed to
waiting for the next major Firefox release."
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The Tor project forks Firefox Posted May 4, 2011 2:35 UTC (Wed) by jmalcolm (guest, #8876) [Link]
The timing of this was interesting given that Firefox is just now moving to a dramatically faster release cycle.
Is the Aurora 6 week cycle really not fast enough for them?
The Tor project forks Firefox Posted May 4, 2011 3:50 UTC (Wed) by Banis (guest, #59011) [Link]
This is an excellent idea. It will allow them to focus on their direction while still pushing patches useful to the rest of us upstream. A proper modern distributed source control makes this sort of thing reasonably easy to manage.
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