[betawolf33]

A nice idea, but probably not a good one.

The problems Tor would bring users in terms of slow connection, risk from malicious exit nodes etc. would outweigh any benefit for most people. Combine this with the fact that to gain anonmyity from Tor you'd need to (at least) disable JS and session cookies, which many ordinary users will consider to break their browsing experience, and you'll find that really all this idea would do is put a lot more load on the Tor network. That's assuming a 'default on' option.

Perhaps an 'anonymous mode' version of 'private browsing' which switches the browser to a more secure configuration (like the Tor browser) and proxies through Tor would mitigate some of these problems.

[slacka]

If Mozilla added a "Tor mode", I'm sure it would be configured like the Tor Browser bundle, ie with both disable JS and session cookies disable along with all the privacy enhancements. The existing "private browsing mode" hurts the browsing experience. That's why it's optional for times when you value privacy over convenience.

If you had noticed from the tweets, it appears that Mozilla has been slow to adopt Tor's patches.[1][2] Making Tor a supported feature would greatly alleviate this situation.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#firef...

[2] https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#firef...

[RivieraKid]

It wouldn't be enabled by default obviously.