Re: [tbb-dev] Tor Browser version strategy

On 3/24/14, 4:10 PM, Mike Perry wrote:

Is there a reason why we need to use their exact version numbers? What if we just formatted and stored existing TBB versions in the same way that Firefox does?

One issue is extension compatibility, e.g., if an extension is marked as requiring Firefox 24 or newer, then the browser will refuse to load the extension if we change the core browser version to 4.0.

Based on this discussion, we are going to keep the idea of a separate Tor Browser version for now. The patches are small (many "one liners") so they should not be too difficult to maintain/reapply as Mozilla makes changes to the code. We can revisit this later if we decide that the benefit outweighs the effort.