[tor-talk] Updating Tor Browser Bundle

Tue Sep 10 22:38:12 UTC 2013

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 06:12:40PM -0400, Nathan Suchy wrote:
> Because chrome does not use Tor for DNS and that's an issue.
> 
> > Is there a functional reason Tor uses Firefox for the TBB?  I personally
> > like Chromium, so I have the Tor packages installed in Ubuntu and use that
> > system wide instead of the TBB.

No, the DNS part is solvable. But there are a bunch of deeper problems
with Chrome and privacy that are much harder to solve (and that so far
Chrome has shown little interest in solving).

See the links from https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#TBBOtherBrowser

--Roger