Orfox vs Tor Browser / Firefox for Android FAQ¶

1. 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)

1. Orfox removes the Android permissions for Contacts, Camera, Microphone, Location and NFC (https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/3822)

1. Orfox adds patches at the Java/Android app layer to enable proxying of all Java network/HTTP communications through the local Orbot HTTP proxy (localhost:8118). SOCKS proxying is not supported by default so more work needs to be done to enable that, but for now HTTP proxying is acceptable. (https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/5235 https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/5317)