Sponsor 58: Tor Browser Security, Performance, & Usability Improvements

Project Period: 4/1/2020 - 9/31/2020

With this project we are completing the migration of Tor Browser for Android from ​Fennec to ​Fenix.

Progress milestone.

Objective 1: Build the infrastructure and processes to enable us to migrate Tor Browser for Android away from Fennec (on the Firefox Extended Support Release cycle) and onto Fenix (on the Firefox regular release cycle).

• O1.1 - Set up QA and regression test infrastructure
• O1.2 - Update infrastructure to automatically rebase tor-browser.git patches onto Firefox-beta so they can be used in nightly builds

Objective 2: Migrate Tor Browser for Android onto Fenix and away from Fennec.

• O2.1: Evaluate and address Fennec vs. Fenix UI changes
• O2.2: Update build system for Fenix migration
• O2.3: Update existing QA and regression test infrastructure for Fenix
• O2.4: Migrate Tor Browser for Android from ESR68 to Fenix

Old wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor58