[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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