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Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla engineers have added a mechanism to Firefox 52 that prevents websites from fingerprinting users using system fonts. The user privacy protection system was borrowed from the Tor Browser, where a similar mechanism blocks websites from identifying users based on the fonts installed on their computers, only returning a list of "default fonts" per each OS. While sabotaging system font queries won't stop user fingerprinting as a whole, this is just one of the latest privacy-related updates Mozilla has added to Firefox, taken from Tor. Back in July 2016, Mozilla engineers started the Tor Uplift project, which aims to improve Firefox's privacy features with the ones present in the Tor Browser.
Let's see: - Firefox still has a customizable UI and chrome doesn't, you can have everything back with classic theme restorer, even UI elements from 10 years ago, and you can export your customization to a file for everyone to enjoy. - Firefox is rolling out a multiprocess model that doesn't just blindly give a process to every tab - Firefox still has better resource usage when you open more than 5 tabs - Firefox ESR has been much more stable for me than any chrom*