[tor-talk] access sites

[Runa A. Sandvik]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:59 AM,  <tor324890 at rainslide.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 03 April, 2012 at 21:09:08 BST, frank kearns wrote:
>>
>> I have TOR icon installed on my desktop.  After clicking it, the onion
>> goes from yellow to green and a popup says 'Welcome to the TOR.  Now I need
>> help getting to sites like Silk Road.  The isn't a spot to type it in like
>> Google or other browsers.  Thanks for any advice.
>
>
> The green icon means Tor is enabled from your computer. Now you need to
> configure your web browser to use it. To do that, change its proxy to use
> SOCKS5 (sometimes just SOCKS) on localhost, port 9050 (unless you've changed
> the default port).

No you don't. Just use the browser in the Tor Browser Bundle, it's
already configured for use with Tor.

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Runa A. Sandvik