Firefox 50 has Tor privacy patches

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by summerheat, Nov 17, 2016.

  1. summerheat

    summerheat Registered Member

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    Mozilla is working on implementing patches from the Tor project in Firefox subsumed in this meta ticket. The respective wiki site says:

    Needless to say that this makes life for the Tor developers much easier. And privacy- and security-oriented Firefox users will be happy to enable those preferences in about:config.

    In Firefox v. 50 three patches are already implemented:

    1. browser.download.forbid_open_with ensures that the download dialogue is no longer offered with the "open with" option.
    2. Another patch ensures that navigator.plugins and navigator.mimeTypes no longer expose installed plugins.
    3. A third patch ensures that screen.orientation.angle always reports 0 and screen.orientation.type always reports landscape-primary - regardless if that's true or not.

    Note that patches 2 and 3 are javascript objects which you won't find in about:config. In order to enable them you have to set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true.
     
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