PirateBrowser

Browser released by The Pirate Bay to bypass censorship: Firefox Portable with FoxyProxy and the Vidalia Tor client, not aiming for full anonymity.

Facts

Developer

The Pirate Bay

Website

web.archive.org

Engine

Gecko

Derived from

Mozilla Firefox

Platforms

Windows

Details

Released on August 10, 2013 (Firefox Portable 23 + FoxyProxy + Vidalia); only version 0.6b offered until 2015; domain suspended around December 2015; an unofficial “Pirate Tor Browser” (Team-LiL) carried on afterwards

Popularity

62/100 — 5,000,000 downloads claimed in May 2014 (Wikipedia)

Key versions

1. Aug. 10, 2013
   LaunchGecko (Firefox 23)Released for The Pirate Bay’s 10th anniversary: Firefox Portable 23, FoxyProxy and the Vidalia Tor client.

Version sources: PirateBrowser (Wikipedia en)

Sources

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBrowser
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102184303/http://piratebrowser.com/
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20180101172427/http://piratebrowser.com/