Browser behavior is additionally augmented through the Torbutton extension, and we also change a number of Firefox preferences from their defaults. We have a series of patches against this browser to enhance privacy and security. The Tor Browser is based on Mozilla's Extended Support Release (ESR) Firefox branch. Privacy requirements are primarily concerned with reducing linkability: the ability for a user's activity on one site to be linked with their activity on another site without their knowledge or explicit consent. Security Requirements are the minimum properties in order for a browser to be able to support Tor and similar privacy proxies safely. There are two main categories of requirements for the Tor Browser: Security Requirements, and Privacy Requirements. The Tor Browser was designed to provide privacy while surfing the web and defend users against both network and local forensic adversaries, There is in fact a lot of information that can be still learned by just observing encrypted communications. The property of anonymity itself is more than just providing an encrypted connection between the source and the destination of a given conversation. Tor is an important tool providing privacy and anonymity online.

CSS/HTML JavaScript and other web standards.Tor Web Docs is an evolving resource for Web Privacy and related topics, included: The objective behind Tor Web Docs is to provide developers with the information and resources needed to understand privacy issues and build privacy-friendly projects on the web platform that can be rendered by Tor browser as by any other browser.

Tor Web Docs are a collection of documents about privacy on the Web and developing for the privacy-friendly Web.

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