Program: PirateBrowser
License: Open Source
Description: "PirateBrowser is an Internet browser by The Pirate Bay used to circumvent Internet censorship. It was released on August 10, 2013 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Pirate Bay. It is a bundle of Firefox Portable, the FoxyProxy addon, and the Vidalia Tor client. It does not use the anonymous capabilities of the Tor network, which slows down browsing significantly. According to TorrentFreak it has already been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times"
(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBrowser_ )
Website: http://piratebrowser.com/#
Most recent version: Version 0.6b
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It might be a bit early to look at PirateBrower (only up to 0.6b) and to be honest it could be seen as a somewhat controversial program to have on the official release list, but it sounds like it might be an interesting program to have a portable version of.
(say the person who has no idea of how difficult this might be to make portable :-p)
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What is the differneces with this: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
which is also open source, based on firefox, using tor...
This is something that the devs do not disclose and they speak in dark questions only.
In fact as it uses the Tor network, it is probably set to use the first exit node outside the country and fine it is.
This is using the Tor as single proxy apparently, not a cascade.
There are many proxy tools and services doing similar.
I would call it a miss use of the Tor network.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
As far as I know, only PortableApps.com has obtained the permission to repackage and redistribute Firefox with the branding intact. However that permission does not extend to allow others to repackage Firefox Portable.
Unless TPB have recompiled Firefox with every bit of branding removed, or unless they have obtained permission from Mozilla to repackage and redistribute Firefox with their branding intact, then it is in violation of Firefox's licence.
and that is a quite understandable a reason to not do a PortableApps version.
Thanks for the quick reply
[to be honest, I'm not the PirateBrowser's 'target market/audience' so portable or not I won't be using it - it just sounded interesting]