Mozilla Wants to d Tor Within Firefox as a browsing modeByBill Toulas-May 10, 2019.931 Mozilla aims to add the Onion protocol to Firefox and provide a “Super Private Browsing” feature. The first browser to do this was “Brave,” which is based on the application Chromium. Mozilla is willing to invest money in incorporating Tor into Firefox, as this goal was decided by the new 2019H1 Research Grants program. What Mozilla aims is to create a new browsing mode called “Super Private Browsing” Spb that gives its users absolute anonymity and privacy. Mozilla acknowledges that they are entering the unexplored territories as they discuss the ongoing consideration of various network architectures and route selection protocols, such as employing Tor-over-Quic Walking Onions or Dtls. The main point is to achieve an acceptable performance while maintaining the properties of Tor which is the main purpose of all of this effort. Integrating Tor into Firefox would introduce a more stable internet experience to an enormous number of people worldwide through real private browsing. Apply for a Mozilla Research Grant to help research the following considerations: pic.twitter.com/D9nv9kZw1q The Tor Project (@torproject) May 9, 2019 While the “Spb” sounds great Firefox won’t be the first application to give this. Since last summer the Brave browser offers a form of Tor integration naming it the “Private Tabs.” In Brave a user can keep private Tor-backed tabs and standard tabs at the same time, so it’s a flexible browsing experience. Users running private tabs contribute back to the Tor network by running relays something that Mozilla also aims to do with its implementation of Firefox. The difference between the two is that Brave is Chromium-based, so that Mozilla will have to work from scratch for its own implementation. Because Tor does not hide the fact that the anonymous user uses the Tor network to access the network, some websites restrict access through it. In addition, the Tor network may still be susceptible to exit-node eavesdropping mouse fingerprinting and circuit fingerprinting from Ip exposure. These are, of course, specific cases that include highly targeted users and not the standard and strong privacy security feature that most people want to have. With Firefox’s user base at about 10 percent right now porting that large number to Tor’s Onion protocol will have a tremendously beneficial impact on the project.