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The Tor project forks Firefox

[Posted May 3, 2011 by corbet]

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 (subscriber, #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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