[guardian-dev] EOL Orweb, focus on Firefox?

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Thu Aug 22 15:01:17 EDT 2013



On 08/22/2013 01:39 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> 
> Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>
>> It makes a lot of sense to merge efforts with the Tor Project, since
>> there are
>> quite limited resources going into anonymous browsers at the moment.
>>
>> Plus on devices up th 4.5", I like the Firefox interaction the best of
>> all the
>> browsers, so that's another reason to go with Firefox.
>>
>> I can't see any notable advantages with sticking with a WebView-based
>> browser.
>> Are there any worth mentioning?
>>
>> I do think we should do a gradual transition away from Orbot.  Orbot
>> should
>> loudly proclaim its weaknesses (html5 video, flash, etc), but continue
>> to work
>> for as long as it is feasible.  If the current Firefox setup involved
>> lots of
>> setup (which I believe it does) then Orbot will continue to serve as
>> the easy
>> way to reduce the level of tracking.  Orbot is certainly better than
>> nothing.
> 
> I think you meant Orweb in this statement?

Oops, yes Orweb.

.hc


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