Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync by tomrittervg on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:01PM (#18452746)

I happen to also work on Firefox/Tor Browser's anti-fingerprinting work, so yea - we're trying to make improvements there too =)

Containers is a big Firefox feature (exposed through an Add-On) in this category too.

As far as Web Extension APIs, I don't know much about that, but if you have an API that would enable a use case that Mozilla doesn't have a bug on and haven't considered; you are welcome to file a bug explaining what you would like and what you would use it for, and the Web Extension team will consider it.

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Re:Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync by qwerty456127 on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:14PM (#18455630)

Thanks. Great to read you work on anti-fingerprinting, I'd name this among the most important subjects today.

I don't code privacy enhancing extensions myself (that feels like "inventing my own crypto" for me - not enough competence to be sure I won't make it worse actually), I've just noticed Firefox becomes significantly more slow when I enable them so I guess there probably are some sorts of bottlenecks in the Web Extension APIs (or maybe not really).

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