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Re:Tor Browser 6.0 is released by tshtf on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @09:38AM (#11806420)
The Tor Browser Bundle doesn't ship the standard version of Firefox! Several privacy-enhancing patches are applied to the ESR release of Firefox for TBB releases. This is because the Mozilla Foundation refused to accept the Tor Project's commits to enhance privacy in the browser.

There are also tickets in Tor's TRAC issue tracker for Chrome. Once again, using Chrome securely would require several patches to source.

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Re:Tor Browser 6.0 is released by mconley on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:34AM (#11806722)
> This is because the Mozilla Foundation refused to accept the Tor Project's commits to enhance privacy in the browser.

Actually, I'm pretty sure this is untrue. I'm reasonably certain we're actively working with the Tor Browser developers to get their patches merged into core (but preffed off) so that they don't have to maintain a stack of patches on top of Firefox.

(Disclaimer: Mozilla employee)

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