Hi David
David:
Hello:
I started using the Tor Browser several months ago, and I really liked it.
Recently, however, you disabled the following extensions/themes that I installed from the Mozilla website:
Sebastian Kitty (Theme)
Addblock Plus (Extension)
Privacy Badger (Extension)
Roboform Password Manger (Extension)
No Script (Extension)
DuckDuck Go Privacy Essentials (Extension)
Now I get all kinds of crap when I attempt to browse the Internet with Tor (scripts, advertisements etc.).
I like to be able to control my browser, but you folks at the Tor Project have done away with all that; something about themes and extensions being unverified.
I USED to have them all installed in the Tor Browser without any problem, but now all of them have been disabled and there are no substitutes for any of them (besides, why would I use a "substitute" for an extension/theme that's already doing an adequate job?).
Tried to install some things from the Mozilla website but apparently extensions and themes from Mozilla are pretty much ALL incompatible with the Tor Browser.
NO THANK YOU!
I'm going back to using Brave and Firefox. Neither Firexfox or Brave present any problems when it comes to using the extensions and themes that I've been using for years (my personal preference is "Brave" It looks like Google Chrome but it ISN'T Google Chrome (I want nothing to do with Google) and it's a LOT faster than Firefox).
Seriously- what good is any browser when you disable themes and extensions?
I'm not about to recommend Tor to ANYone at this point (I had been doing that but today it stops). Far as I'm concerned you browser is broken.
I am sorry for the inconvenience you experienced. The underlying problem you witnessed is a Firefox bug, thus it would not have helped you if you used Firefox instead of Tor Browser (although I've heard Mozilla shipped a first fix that should mitigate the problem for most of Firefox's users by now). For further details see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973
I hope that puts the bug into a better perspective. We plan to release a new Tor Browser as soon as a fix from Mozilla's side is available (which is hopefully the case today or tomorrow). Meanwhile there is a workaround at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30388#comment:1
However, flipping the preference there should only be done _temporarily_ as it disables a security feature.
Hope this helps, Georg