[tor-talk] New to TOR

[Roger Dingledine]

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:18:09PM +0000, Manfred Ackermann wrote:
> Install the tor browser bundle ... it starts with its own firefox instance
> with the tor browser check as startpage. At the firefox preferences of this
> instance you can exclude your shopping and bank websites so they won't be
> routed through the tor network.

This last part is probably unwise. If you start messing with the Firefox
preferences, especially the proxy preferences, of your Tor Browser you're
likely to screw up your privacy in some way.

If there are sites you don't want to visit over Tor, use some other
browser besides TBB to do it.

--Roger