Tor on Chromium, when?
Seriously, I am saddened that Chromium dominates the browser market as much as it does, but at this point the herd-immunity of Chromium is necessary to keep users safe.
Tor on Chromium, when?
Seriously, I am saddened that Chromium dominates the browser market as much as it does, but at this point the herd-immunity of Chromium is necessary to keep users safe.
To answer "Tor on Chromium, when?", well - you can actually do this right now using BrowserBox! It has a built-in tor-run function that connects Chrome to a Tor SOCKS proxy, and it wraps any other browsing-related network calls over torsocks as well.
Because it's an isolated remote browser, you also get a lot of flexibility. You can run BrowserBox itself as an onion hidden service connected to the clearnet, or connect BrowserBox to browse over Tor, or even do both at the same time. Since this Firefox IndexedDB vulnerability relies on persisting state, you can completely avoid it by running BrowserBox (based on Chromium), and doing it ephemerally. There's actually a new GitHub action [0] that makes spinning up a purely ephemeral, disposable session incredibly easy and would be immune to this kind of process-level state tracking.
The action runs BrowserBox on a GitHub Action Runner, you can specify whether you want a CloudFlare tunnel, or a tor tunnel (which comes with torweb access). And there's a conveneince script you can use to run from the command-line - which does the setup then spits out your login link.
All you need is a BrowserBox license (not free), but then you can use it.
I would consider this a lightweight Tor-proxied Browser, not a replacement for Tor Browser, at this time as there are likely edges and leaks that the official Tor Browser has long patched. However, as cases liek this IDB bug demonstrate - no security is perfect. If you simply want a way to access tor, and add an extra "ephemeral" hop on a runner, itself over Tor, and not trying to do anything especially sensitive or life-threatening - it's probably good.
[0]: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/browserbox
[1]: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox