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n8fr8, 06/27/2015 01:22 am
Orfox vs Tor Browser vs Firefox for Android FAQ¶
How is Orfox different than Tor Browser for desktop?- Orfox is built from the Tor Browser repo based on ESR38 (https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/5146 https://dev.guardianproject.info/news/221) and has only two modified patches that were not relevant/necessary for 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)
- 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)
- Orfox removes the Android permissions for Contacts, Camera, Microphone, Location and NFC (https://dev.guardianproject.info/issues/3822)