New Release: Tor Browser 10.0.14

In reply to a comment to the post for 10.0.13, sysrqb said:
"bookmarks could be used as a tracker if the page you bookmark is somehow unique/special to you"

To clarify to users, web pages cannot read the bookmarks in your Library as far as I know. I assume one of the things that sysrqb meant are addresses that are appended with unique parameters like &var=UN1QU3V151TC0D3 or strings of random characters. Some of those kinds of parameters are there for the web site to track your browser as you click from one page to another. Some might be for tracking your actions. Some might be used to verify you if you log in somewhere. Some might not be used to track you but rather used to indicate a page name or content on the server. Read about add-ons like ClearURLs and Neat URL, but you're strongly discouraged from installing add-ons in Tor Browser. If you save a bookmark that contains parameters that mark you as unique and then you start a New Identity, if you open that bookmark, those parameters can be used to continue tracking you in your New Identity.

The person whom sysrqb was answering, onan, sounded like English wasn't their first language, so I cringed at the answer that could be interpreted as if web sites can read your folders of bookmarks even if you don't open them. However, bookmarks are saved on your computer drives, so users should consider physical security and drive encryption because drives can be seized, lost, stolen, given away, thrown in the trash, intercepted in travel, sent for repairs, or be out of your vicinity for other reasons. A safer but less practical method would be to use a live DVD/USB operating system like Tails that doesn't save data to disk by default.

In onan's second question, the "option to restore past bookmarked pages" is located in the Library window when you click "Show All Bookmarks". Firefox (and Tor Browser) save up to 15 backup files as *.jsonlz4 in the /[profile]/bookmarkbackups folder. Tor Browser supports saving, importing, and exporting bookmarks.

Onan then said, "this could be a problem in a public computer, when many persons want to use same account." It sounds like a kiosk or an Internet café. That is an interesting new persona to study, Community Team!! (to Gus, et al.) Usually though, public computers are configured for a guest account and/or to automatically log out after a period of time and delete the guest account's files.