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Where I can download tor expert bundle?

New Tor website > Download Tor Browser > Download Tor Source Code > Windows Expert Bundle
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Can I install Firefox addons on Tor Browser?

The worst thing that can happen is that the add-on tries to access the internet and doesn't use Tor. --> that will destroy your anonymity and release your real IP address! Hopefully the worst thing ...
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How can I disable the grey border?

This new feature is called, "Letterboxing" Tor Browser, in its default mode, is starting with a content window rounded to a multiple of 200px x 100px to prevent fingerprinting the screen ...
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Start only TOR without Firefox

You can run tor.exe without Tor browser in this way: 1) Copy torrc.defaults into the directory in which tor.exe is 2) Open cmd prompt windows 3) chdir to the directory where tor.exe is 4) Execute cmd ...
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Setting Tor Browser as default browser in Windows

I successfully configured Tor Browser 5.0.1 as default browser in Windows 8. Note that you cannot open Firefox and Tor Browser in parallel when using this solution. Probably both browsers use the ...
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Does windows 10 compromise TOR?

Windows 10 has a keylogger embedded, thus all the words, codes, psws that user insert using keyboard could be sent to Windows Servers and to authorities per request. Does it mean we should use "on ...
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Failed to connect to Tor network?

The first warning in the logs is this: 11/6/2015 7:05:53 AM.400 [WARN] Our clock is 1 days, 21 hours, 54 minutes behind the time published in the consensus network status document (2015-11-08 10:00:...
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Is it a better practise to use DNSCrypt over Tor or is it useless?

DNSCrypt does not give you protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, it just moves where the man-in-the-middle would need to be. For example, if the man-in-the-middle existed between your upstream ...
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Where I can download tor expert bundle?

Tor recently relaunched its website. Currently there are some issues with the website. If you want to go to the old website, there is a copy at https://2019.www.torproject.org/. The expert bundle is ...
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why do I get "Access Denied" at certain web sites when I didn't last year?

It may not be the comprehensive answer you are looking for, but it's very common for larger companies to offsource the majority of their infrastructure gruntwork, including the handling and building ...
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How can I run a relay on Windows?

The Tor Project Documentation has a page on Configuring a Tor relay. They point out that "since Vidalia (a graphical interface for Tor) is no longer included in Tor Browser, there are currently no ...
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How to set Tor proxy for Windows 10 instead of VPN?

Tor not just a not http proxy - it's a transparent proxy with host-mapping features and DNS + SOCKS backend. If you want it as a VPN, especially on Windows 10, you MUST use a separate box as a router, ...
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Routing Bittorrent through a Tor relay...

my thinking is that having all this Tor relay traffic co-mingling with the BitTorrent traffic would make any sort of traffic analysis of my Internet much more complicated. Not in any meaningful way, ...
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Tor Browser does not have permission to access the profile... Win 10/64

Usual software is installed by writing some components to a specific location like C:\Program Files and when it is used such software creates user-specific files in your home directory. The Tor ...
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How can I start obfs4proxy.exe without starting Tor Browser?

I have solved this problem. Under Windows 7, the absolute path must be used for the obfs4proxy configuration in torrc-default; the relative path for obfs4proxy plugin doesn't work! ## obfs4proxy ...
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Can I install Firefox addons on Tor Browser?

As of https://superuser.com/questions/137931/can-websites-see-my-firefox-addons, there is no default API to detect addons, as there is for plugins. As stated, malicious addons can certainly decloak ...
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Refreshed Tor and lost log-in,home page and icons

The Tor Browser Bundle is based on Firefox. The option you clicked is a Firefox feature that removes all of your add-ons and customizations, and resets everything to the default settings. Since you ...
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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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How do I unistall Tor on Windows 10?

Tor is not installing any registry information and nothing but it's files, so just deleting the folder with Tor and the shortcuts from your desktop(if you have ones) will remove it. No traces in ...
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Is the latest Tor-0.2.5.10 Expert Bundle broken?

Just a note, running tor.exe | more gives you console output of tor
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Create a wifi hotspot by a laptop which pass all traffic through Tor (Windows)

Use Virtualbox with USB Wi-Fi dongle. Your host(Windows) will go to the Internet directly, and the Linux VM will be routed through it(NAT or bridge) - and USB 2.0(not 3.0 !) will be a mapping ...
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HTTP proxy over Tor

Polipo is the best choice! Here is an official website and a GitHub repository
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Proxy Client: unable to connect ("general SOCKS server failure")

To resolve this issue, Open Tor browser => Click on Configure button => select Tor is censored in my country option => Click on Request a new Bridge => enter captcha then click Submit. you will get a ...
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Can I just run tor and obsfproxy on windows platform without having to start tor browser

In general the usage for obfsproxy looks like: obfsproxy [obfsproxy_args] protocol_name [protocol_args] protocol_options protocol_name So, as an example: obfsproxy obfs2 socks 127.0.0.1:5050 Other ...
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Multiple instances of Tor in Windows

You haven't included the console logs, but I'm suspecting the log for the second instance - the one that's dying - will be outputting an error to say that port 9051 is already in use. The first ...
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Can't connect to Tor using expert bundle on windows, works if Tor is started by Tor Browser

As Richard answered, running tor.exe | more gives you console output of tor and I was able to see that tor is searching for torrc configuration in AppData/Roaming/tor instead of using configuration ...
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How to set Tor proxy for Windows 10 instead of VPN?

Tor is not a http proxy but it is a SOCKS proxy, so please put your options (127.0.0.1:9150) in the socks field. :)
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How to specify country (ExitNodes) on command line

Passing Tor arguments to Firefox is totally not going to do what you want. The right way to change Tor's config on Windows without restarting Tor is via the control port (for example, by using a ...
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Tor doesn't connect to proxy server

"DisableNetwork is set." is normal for Tor Browser, it disables the network before launching and then it gets unset once the user has chosen their configuration. (This is to avoid it trying to ...
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