[tor-bugs] #27660 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Investigate Gnuzilla as base for Tor Browser

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#27660: Investigate Gnuzilla as base for Tor Browser
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     Reporter:  traumschule               |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  project                   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Very Low                  |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                    |   Keywords:
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 https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
 > GNUzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the
 GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one:
 it is entirely free software. While the Firefox source code from the
 Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free
 software as plug-ins and addons. Also their trademark license imposes
 requirements for the distribution of modified versions that make it
 inconvenient to exercise freedom 3.
 > Privacy protection features
 >    LibreJS: GNU LibreJS aims to address the JavaScript problem described
 in Richard Stallman's article The JavaScript Trap.
 >
 >    Https-Everywhere: Extension that encrypts your communications with
 many major websites, making your browsing more secure.
 >
 >    SpyBlock: Blocks privacy trackers while in normal browsing mode, and
 all third party requests when in private browsing mode. Based on Adblock
 Plus.
 >
 >    AboutIceCat: Adds a custom "about:icecat" homepage with links to
 information about the free software and privacy features in IceCat, and
 checkboxes to enable and disable the ones more prone to break websites.
 >
 >    Fingerprinting countermeasures: Fingerprinting is a series of
 techniques allowing to uniquely identify a browser based on specific
 characterisics of that particular instance (like what fonts are available
 in that machine). Unlike cookies the user cannot opt-out of being tracked
 this way, so the browser has to avoid giving away that kind of hints.

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