Aurora...

What do you think of the Aurora browser currently shipped with the Tor bundle? I think it's bloody awful - waaaaaay slower than my previous Tor/Firefox/Vidalia setup, takes an eternity to fire-up too.

 

Why not just use YOUR BROWSER??

When i had TOR i used my browser with it and it was fine

 

Hi zero-Phil,

I just went to the Tor download page and the Tor Browser Bundle is using Firefox. Maybe the other didn't work out? I knew nothing about it.

Tor Browser Bundle for Windows with Firefox (version 2.2.34-3, 16 MB)
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

 

Thanks LockBox - I'll give it a try, although Aurora is a version of Firefox it's awful IMHO.

 

I very much doubt that anyone will bundle what is essentially an unstable version of a browser.

In any case, Aurora (~Fx10) works just fine.

Apologies to OP: it was Aurora!
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser-details.html.en#contents

 

This whole thing seems a bit screwy to me:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

AFAIK, portableapps.com doesn't do Aurora at all. They just do the stable and betas (if they find time). So how do these Tor guys manage to pick up Aurora 8.01 from portableapps.com?

 

Well, goes to show I don't know the code names for browsers. I can't stand this Firefox rapid release (or whatever they call it).

The Mozilla description:

Aurora is a new channel between the nightly builds from mozilla-central and beta versions from mozilla-beta; as such its status is roughly "experimental".

Why would Tor be using that? I'm baffled.

 

Possibly, but the Tor link explicitly mentions Aurora and that why I visited this thread. And even if were Firefox 8.0.1 portable, it's hard to understand why

I doubt OP's problems stem from Firefox/Aurora. Anyway, I'm not an onion person. I'll sticky to chewing raw garlic.

 

But my point is that portableapps.com hasn't been offering Aurora ever. They even stopped the "minefield" dailies a while ago and I had cried about it here.
Then they even delayed doing betas for a while. I really feel there's been a goof-up somewhere and the main issue of the OP about performance is difficult to understand because Fx and other browsers are just getting better and better (in my opinion).

 

Well it's still Aurora in the latest Tor bundle - I tried an ancient version of portable Tor and Firefox 2 out of curiosity, it might not offer the security levels of the latest Tor bundle but it leaves it for dead speed wise.

 

Apart from clearly claiming that Aurora is slow, your posts are short of detail.

Now you claim that this "Aurora" is slower than Firefox 2 ?

Help!!!!

 

Firefox 2 rocks! Aurora doesn't IMHO.

 

You're trolling.

 

From: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBBrowserName
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Why does TBB's browser window say Aurora?
We build Firefox from source in order to include our Firefox privacy fixes. The default Firefox build process calls the resulting browser "Aurora".

Don't be confused into thinking the browser you see is the same as the Firefox pre-releases that were also named Aurora. A future TBB release will probably have a more recognizable name like "Tor Browser".
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I found the following about:config settings help performance:

Filter: content.
- content.interrupt.parsing: true
- content.max.tokenizing.time: 360000
- content.notify.backoffcount: 5
- content.notify.interval: 120000
- content.notify.ontimer: true
- content.switch.threshold: 750000
Filter: network.http
- network.http.keep-alive.timeout: 600
- network.http.max-connections: 48
- network.http.max-connections-per-server: 16
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy: 16
- network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server: 16
- network.http.pipelining: true
- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests: 10
- network.http.proxy.keep-alive: true
- network.http.pipelining.ssl: true
- network.http.proxy.pipelining: true
Filter: network.prefetch
- network.prefetch-next: false
Filter: layout
- layout.spellcheckDefault: 2
- nglayout.initialpaint.delay: 600

Edit - This doesn't speed up the launch of course, just browsing.

 

Thank you for your clarification. Much appreciated

 

Yes, thanks for the information. I didn't realize that and it's good to know.

 

Im running IE6 (Via MyIE2) and i have my Max HTTP Connections set to 48 like it says above (Have had it like that for awhile)

Is there anyway i can check and see if im getting that many?

 

I'm glad that helped. In return, could someone by chance refer me for an account on http://forums.security-forum.net? Thanks in advance if anyone can help.

 

Why is there no more Polipo (or Privoxy) bundled with TBB?

 

Current Firefox/Aurora versions don't need them.