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Can't set master password in the tor browser
It's a bug that will be fixed soon, see: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40506
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Noscript DISABLED on tor 8.0.8
This is not really a problem with Tor, but within Firefox. One of the certificates which Firefox uses for signing of add-ons is expired. They write about it in their bugtracking system: https://...
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Page doesn't fill window in Tor Browser
This is intentional as it is a way to protect against finger printing your browser window based on the dimensions of going full screen. It reduces the websites ability to track you based on the ...
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How to use multiple profiles with Tor?
This won't work, given that Tor Browser ships with a specific default profile which it uses, and needs to use to operate properly, creating and utilising different profiles will cause issues.
Instead,...
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Why the link for tails done this?
Someone is interfering with TLS, or your browser has an old certificate pin that is no longer valid and your browser requires updating.
Tails provides mirrors, if access to the main website is ...
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Can't set master password in the tor browser
This got fixed as of 10.5.4 (based on Mozilla Firefox 78.13.0esr):
Source: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1054
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Twitter "Like" and "Retweet" buttons don't work on Tor Browser anymore
This has been fixed for the next Tor Browser release. Please see the ticket below and test if possible:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21555
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Technical differences between Tor webbrowser and Firefox
These lead me to wonder what are the main technical differences between the TOR browser and Firefox?
You can find a pretty complete list of the differences in The Design and Implementation of ...
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Will Privacy Possum in Firefox equal the Tor Browser for anonymity?
NO!
Tor hides your IP address and this addon does not.
do NOT change (especially install additional) addons in Tor Browser!
Can I install Firefox addons on Tor Browser?
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Tor vs Brave - which is technically more effective to hinder user tracking - fingerprint generalization or randomization?
I think you're not going to get a lot of good answers because no one has done a study comparing the two in detail and AFAIK that hasn't been done yet.
If we think about it, The Tor Project wants ...
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How to stop Tor browsers from forging the user agent string?
You can't: this is what they built this program for - to mimic for the mass. The goal of this approach is to blend into the most ubiquitous software and to make fingerprinting/identification a way ...
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Why are there unnecssary internal Tor browser pages?
The most likely answer is: Tor Browser keeps these pages because there is no reason to remove them.
Firefox is a big, complex project with lots of components that depend on each other. And it keeps ...
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How to show the Tor Browser, again the menu items that are hidden compared to the esr version?
If you're looking for IP address "obfuscation" rather than anonymity, you could run Tor standalone and take a normal firefox and set it's proxy settings to the socks port of Tor.
If you're ...
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Does Firefox in VM have a common enough fingerprint so I don't need tor browser?
There are several online tools that allow you to test the fingerprint of Tor Browser and other browsers. For example, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's panopticlick.eff.org. Using these tools, it ...
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Page doesn't fill window in Tor Browser
Know and understand the security-related implications of making this change
In the Tor Browser address bar, type in about:config and press enter
Search for privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing
...
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viewing files on local machine via tor browser
This is probably going to be based more on how your OS works but I will try to answer the question.
First, the easy one. In Firefox or any other normal browser, you can go to file:/// to browse your ...
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How to disable Windows Tor Browser 9.0 update check?
In the Tor Browser profile directory (the directory where you normally could find the prefs.js file had it been there - but it doesn't need to actually pre-exist) create a file named user.js with the ...
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Firefox Sync Enabled
Per https://forum.torproject.net/t/how-to-enable-firefox-account-sync/7735/2?u=rokejulianlockhart, convert identity.fxaccounts.enabled from false to true in start-tor-browser about:config.
However, ...
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Firefox Sync Enabled
I would not recommend this. Use a separate Firefox if you really want to do that.
Obviously, sync runs on your local machine, thereby exposing your real identity
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FireFox Tails Verification
I believe you are hitting this known bug: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/12328
Firefox 57 no longer runs the type of "legacy extension" that Tails Download and Verify is. (Can it be overridden ...
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After latest update, Avast says tor's firefox.exe has IDP.Generic virus/trojan
Well, using antivirus when using Tor is a bad practice - but if you need this(sometimes it has it's uses and the problems AV makes are counterweighted by the tasks it solves) - use a proper antivirus. ...
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How can I save addon settings in Tor Browser?
Ok, so it seems that all I had to do was to temporarily tell NoScript to allow scripts globally. After doing that, I went to about:addons as per usual and changed my settings. Sure enough, my settings ...
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Trying to use orbot/orfox (TOR) on Android on this website thats says Firefox 38 not supported need FIREFOX 45 or newer
The latest release of Orbot (available through the Google Playstore or through FDroid from The Guardian Project's repo is based on the Firefox 52 series for Android.
If you are running the latest ...
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Your connection is not secure should I add exception
No, unless you explicitly and fully understand what you are doing you should not set an exception.
As the warning clearly states, if you set an excpetion and unknowningly trust a site then you will ...
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Firefox sync & xmarks
Technically - yes, but - strictly speaking of privacy matters - you should not do so. If you'd like to sync your bookmarks - better use import-to-file/export-from-file tools of your choice, the file ...
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Why orbot isn't updated as with the Tor for windows and why Orfox isn't updated with the latest bundle of Firefox as of the same version in windows?
Orbot
The Orbot currently in Google's Play store appears to be based on Tor 0.2.8.9. Yes, this isn't the newest release of Tor, not even the newest version of the 0.2.8.x series (which is still ...
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lost ability to connect to tor network
First of all, Firefox 40.0.2 has been considered unsupported since 2015-08-27 when 40.0.3 was released. There have been dozens of critical security issues since then. Firefox 43b9 isn't much better ...
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Tor browser conflicts with Malwarebytes antimalware
It can be sounding funny, but the very name of the program describes it's quality - it's a malware bytes by itself :) But speaking seriously, after my experience in IT security, I can give you some ...
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Twitter "Like" and "Retweet" buttons don't work on Tor Browser anymore
I just verified this issue. It appears that the auth_token is not being sent in the JSON request form, even though it is included in the headers.
Request URL: https://api.twitter.com/1.1/favorites/...
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Refreshed Tor and lost log-in,home page and icons
copy %userprofile%\desktop\Old Firefox Data\profile.default to %yourTORpath%\Browser\TorBrowser\Data\Browser and rename to profile.default-1234567891011. Actually suffix is random,
I guess, but I ...
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