TOR creates 5 circuits initially. Does the TOR browser do the same?
1 Answer
Tor Browser launches it's own copy of tor
.
The tor that it launches doesn't differ from any other instance of tor
, except by configuration differences defined in torrc
and torrc-defaults
.
Anything that tor
does, the tor
launched by Tor Browser will also do.
tor
opportunistically opens a number circuits, Tor Browser's tor
does too.
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But the browser creates a new circuit for each unique domain while TOR's number of circuits does not exceed 5. So the browser does have it's own functionality to. May 1, 2017 at 21:27
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But the browser creates a circuit for each new domain. TOR specifically doesn't do that - It will only do that if the current circuits can't serve a certain request. May 1, 2017 at 22:03
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1Tor doesn't do it by default. Tor can do it: Tor Browser's Tor Does Not Differ From Any Other Instance Of Tor. See this answer for an explaination of how Tor Browser's circuit isolation works. May 2, 2017 at 0:04