The Tor project has announced that it is moving away from its Firefox extension and toward the maintenance of its own fork of the browser. “The Tor Browser bug [fixes] on the other hand are more directly usable by Firefox in its own Private Browsing Mode, which makes them more likely to merge quicker, and be maintained long-term. Also, because we are releasing our own Firefox-based browser, we will also have more control over experimenting with them and deploying these fixes to our users rapidly, as opposed to waiting for the next major Firefox release.“
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