List/document Whonix' Tor Browser Modifications

[nusenu]

Hi,

from the documentation it is not clear what modifications Whonix makes to Tor Browser that make it distinguishable by a visited website when compared with a stock Torbrowser configuration.

One example:
It appears to be the case that Whonix version of Tor Browser disables JavaScript by default
but that is not mentioned here:

Tor Browser Essentials

I believe it would be better to keep the configuration of Tor Browser shipped by Whonix as similar as possible (except for example required changes like the SOCKS proxy IP) because the Whonix user population is presumably significantly smaller than the overall Tor Browser user-base.

Could you minimize or at least document the changes you make to Tor Browser?

thanks!

[Patrick]

@nusenu

It appears to be the case that Whonix version of Tor Browser disables JavaScript by default

We don’t have code for that, we are not doing that.

@nusenu

Could you minimize or at least document the changes you make to Tor Browser?

Documented here:

Tor Browser Essentials

@nusenu

I believe it would be better to keep the configuration of Tor Browser shipped by Whonix as similar as possible (except for example required changes like the SOCKS proxy IP) because the Whonix user population is presumably significantly smaller than the overall Tor Browser user-base.

This is already the case now.

Tor Browser Essentials may also apply for your comparisons.

[nusenu]

thanks for the prompt reply and the pointers I’ll look into the issues then, to find out what is causing this