How is Orfox different than Tor Browser for desktop?

Added by n8fr8 over 2 years ago

We have started a wiki page to answer questions about Orfox: Orfox_vs_Tor_Browser_FAQ

How is Orfox different than Tor Browser for desktop?

Orfox is built from the same source code as Tor Browser, but with a few minor modifications to the privacy enhancements to make them compatible with Android.

  • Orfox includes a "Request Mobile Site" option that allows you to change the user-agent from the standard Tor Browser agent to a modified android/mobile one: "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0". (https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/5404)

How is Orfox different than Firefox for Android?

  • Beyond the core Tor Browser components, Orfox also must ensure all Android-specific code is properly routed through the Tor proxy, and otherwise hardened to protect against data and privacy leaks.

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