Chromium-based Sphere browser

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labbe5
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Chromium-based Sphere browser

#1 Post by labbe5 »

https://sphere.tenebris.cc/#home

Portable browser for Linux : https://sphere.tenebris.cc/download/sphere_nix.zip

What makes Sphere browser unique and useful?

Hundreds of new identities just in one click

The browser has systems for protection and fingerprint substitution (GPU, Audio, Canvas, Plugins, Fonts, ClientRects, Ubercookies) automatically changing them for each new identity. Nobody can recognize configuration of your real computer if you surf with Sphere – it protects you against any identification attempt.

AES-256 encryption

The browser uses the best protected type of data encryption to keep safe information saved to the computer in case of necessity. Besides, you can import identities with necessary data safely.

OTR-mode

Sphere operates in Off-the-Record mode – during software operation all current files and data are saved in RAM till its closure. Thus, it is impossible to get access to information about visited sites and activities in them even using spying solutions (viruses) installed directly on the computer.

Anonymity in the Internet

The software allows you easily substitute your IP-address using, e.g., TOR. The users who do not trust an onion network can make use of multiflow SOCKS and SSH connections. You are everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Further reading :
Sphere – A Browser for Anonymity
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sphere-a- ... anonymity/

Based on my trying Sphere browser :
First you need to open Tor folder and execute Tor
Then open your browser using terminal : ./RunSphere.sh
Finally, create an identity. Once done, you can browse the web.
I am writing this using Sphere.

On invidio.us :
Sphere Browser Review
https://invidio.us/watch?v=W0OqVmOUM0A

Null_ID
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#2 Post by Null_ID »

This has promise, I like it. And especially I like the fact that it seems to have a relatively small memory foot print, compared to something like Chrome. I'm keeping this one just for that alone. Thanks for the tip, trying it now on Xenialpup 7.5, and it's working beautifully.

phredo
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#3 Post by phredo »

First you need to open Tor folder and execute Tor
Then open your browser using terminal : ./RunSphere.sh
I extracted sphere_nx.zip to a directory outside of Puppy.
Then I opened that directory/tor and clicked on the tor gear-like icon.
Then I returned to the main directory and used Geary to Open Here a terminal window.
In the terminal window, I entered ./RunSphere.sh .

I received multiple errors saying /usr/lib64/libQt5Core.so5 could not be found
So I found that file in the sphere lib directory and copied to the Puppy directory being sought.
I re-ran the command and now have a new error: error while loading shared libraries:
libicui18n.so.57: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
I could also copy that file friom the sphere_nx/lib folder to the Puppy /lib foler, but I thought that perhaps there is a more simple/elegant solution than to continue to copy files into Puppy. Do you have any ideas, please? I thought that perhaps there is a command I could first run that would make sphere_nx/lib available to the program and that then that command could be run first (along with a command to open tor) in a script that ends with the RunSphere.sh command.

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