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Brave Browser launches Tor in the Tab beta

Posted by starchturrets
Tags: privacy, browsers, tor, brave, beta
https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/

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Title
Brave Introduces Beta of Private Tabs with Tor for Enhanced Privacy while Browsing | Brave Browser
Authors
Brave
Published
Jun 28 2018
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912 words

9 comments

  1. [4]
    dblohm7
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    Mozilla developer here. I have heard on good authority that Brave did this without collaborating with the Tor project. YMMV. (A number of Tor developers joined us at our all-hands meeting a few...

    Mozilla developer here. I have heard on good authority that Brave did this without collaborating with the Tor project. YMMV.

    (A number of Tor developers joined us at our all-hands meeting a few weeks ago in SFO.)

    8 votes
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        dblohm7
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        Background for the uninitiated It just so happens that my team includes the developer who works on the Mozilla side of the Fusion project. He asked some of us (myself included) to meet with the...

        How’s the whole Fusion thing for Tor and Firefox going?

        Background for the uninitiated

        It just so happens that my team includes the developer who works on the Mozilla side of the Fusion project. He asked some of us (myself included) to meet with the Tor developers during our all-hands.

        From what I can tell, we have a really good relationship with the Tor team. They were very interested to hear about the latest security features that we are implementing in Firefox, and were brainstorming on how those features could be adapted for the Tor use case.

        3 votes
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          starchturrets
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          Thank you. Nice to see open source teams collaborating, rather than hiding everything behind PR code talk. Another question: were the guardian project people there? (The guys who ported Tor to...

          Thank you. Nice to see open source teams collaborating, rather than hiding everything behind PR code talk.
          Another question: were the guardian project people there? (The guys who ported Tor to Android, I mean)

          Also. . . where's SFO? San Fransisco International Airport?

          Edit: Talk, not code.

          2 votes
          1. dblohm7
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            I don't think so? Nobody identified themselves as such, from what I remember. That's the airport code for San Francisco, yes, but I was just using that as shorthand for San Francisco. Mozilla took...

            Another question: were the guardian project people there? (The guys who ported Tor to Android, I mean)

            I don't think so? Nobody identified themselves as such, from what I remember.

            Also. . . where's SFO? San Fransisco International Airport?

            That's the airport code for San Francisco, yes, but I was just using that as shorthand for San Francisco. Mozilla took over a hotel conference centre in downtown San Francisco for a week.

            4 votes
  2. what
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    This is very interesting, Brave is doing some cool stuff. I do wonder what the security implications of running Tor in a non-Tor specific browser are. I’ll be sticking with Firefox for a long...

    This is very interesting, Brave is doing some cool stuff. I do wonder what the security implications of running Tor in a non-Tor specific browser are.

    I’ll be sticking with Firefox for a long time, but definetly keeping up with Brave.

    3 votes
  3. meghan
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    This is very exciting.

    This is very exciting.

    2 votes
  4. DoudouCiceron
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    I'm so close to making Brave my main browser but until they have more add-ons (using reddit without RES is not even an option) I can't make the switch.

    I'm so close to making Brave my main browser but until they have more add-ons (using reddit without RES is not even an option) I can't make the switch.

    2 votes
  6. Luca
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    Huh, this is pretty cool. Anyone here know if they've fixed the battery drain issues on MacOS?

    Huh, this is pretty cool.

    Anyone here know if they've fixed the battery drain issues on MacOS?

    1 vote