I think this strays a bit far afield from tor-dev, but..
If an academic group was interested in basically redesigning the web to be more sane, then Servo might be a good place to start.
There are a whole bunch of things one could do, like forcing much more to be catchable by using content based addressing, restrict cross site/origin communication to be with single use blind signed tokens and/or involve user approval, restrict the role of javascript, embed a better PKI, etc. All the stuff that TBB cannot do because it'd break to many sites.
In short, one could attempt to build a better freenet using grants for "security" work. And the long game would be to guilt the browser makers and web standards people into tightening things up.
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 20:57 +0100, Jeff Burdges wrote:
On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 16:21 +0000, Spencer wrote:
At what point do the efforts to patch Firefox out weigh the efforts to build a browser from scratch?
Browsers are extremely complicated.
If you want to explore Mozilla's efforts to build a more modern browser, then I suggest you look over and build Servo:
https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Design https://servo.org/
It's cool to imagine free software and privacy communities turning Servo into a viable browser that caters to their interests. Afaik, Servo is the only realistic option for minimizing C code in the browser too. In reality, Servo fails to render much of the web correctly because it's a messy problem.
Jeff
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