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On 04/04/13 18:58, bad apple wrote:
I have downloaded and tried Tor. It runs OK, but it automatically uses Firefox. I have looked through the settings and so far can't find any way to change this.On 04/04/13 17:53, Neil Winchurst wrote:I do normally use Firefox as my browser. I do not have Chromium installed. I have tried it in the past, before I upgraded to my current distro, and I did not like it at all. I do have Opera installed, would that one do? Is the idea that I would use this secondary browser just for Tor?That's what I do Neil - I've got pretty much all of the browsers installed (for testing purposes) and I just happen to use Chromium exclusively with Tor. I remember that some some browsers have annoying proxy settings that actually modify your system wide proxy settings rather than having their own individual per-application proxy settings, and I think Opera may have been an offender in this regard. A quick bit of experimentation will uncover any issues like that obviously. You can also manually fire up browsers from the terminal and give them special one-off proxy parameters to override this behaviour though, like so:
I also find that it runs much more slowly than FF. That is it takes a long time to open a web page first time. After that of course it is quicker if I open the same page during that session.
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