[tor-talk] Restarting Firefox

[proper at secure-mail.biz]

I don't think that's a clean and easy solution. Your tool laying around on some third party server and barely anyone being aware and using it.

Possible solutions:
- As a intermediate fix: Simply change the Windows behavior, not to close Vidalia/Tor when Firefox is terminated. (Like already on Linux and OSX.)
- Add an option to Vidalia "Do not close Vidalia/Tor, when Tor Browser gets terminated".
- Or simply provide two start scripts: start-tor-browser-bundle; start-vidalia-tor.

The two start scripts seem the most easy and clean solution to me. One could (auto)start start-vidalia-tor for relaying (or SocksPort for other applications). And start tor-browser later. Finally close tor-browser and keep Vidalia/Tor running.

> Ok, understandable.
>
> then again, SocksPort is just one line.. I mean one
> could write a simple
> script and publish it for such users (which I might
> do in order to
stop
> this drooling of mine);
>
> one finds the line, and changes
> the port number. Problem #1 solved?
>
> For relaying, it is a matter of uncommenting,
> i.e. removing two hashes from
> the beginning - two to ~five lines, depending
> on preference.
>
> Any interest for a program that reads config from torrc,
> displays in a
> simplistic GUI, and lets the user change options?
>
> On Mon,
> Apr 16, 2012 at 7:43 PM, <proper at secure-mail.biz> wrote:
>
> > >
> I'm sorry because I haven't read the entire conversation up until now,
> >
> but
> > >
> > > if people are using Ubuntu, what is stopping them
> from doing
> > >   sudo apt-get
> > > install tor    ;
> >
> >
> Will conflict with Tor Browser Bundle. (SocksPort on same port.)
> >
> >
> > configuring relaying in torrc
> >
> > Vidalia was made for less technical
> users, to help them to make those
> > adjustments with a gui. We shouldn't

> got back to times telling "edit torrc".
> >
> > > and using
> the Firefox/Aurora/whichever
> > >
> > > browser from TBB (would
> need to change the listen port, etc.)?
> >
> > Complicated again. Instructions
> required to do so, that's the reason for
> > this thread. The current state
> is not really desired.


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