[tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3: (multiple) Tor Browser, without Tor/Vidalia; behind a transparent proxy or Tor Router

Abel Luck abel at guardianproject.info
Wed Oct 17 11:15:28 UTC 2012


adrelanos:
> The Doctor:
>> On 10/10/2012 08:59 PM, adrelanos wrote:
>>
>>> Alternative startup scripts for the Tor Browser Bundle. For
>>> starting up Tor Browser without Tor and Vidalia.
>>
>> There's an easier way to go about it:
>>
>> https://github.com/virtadpt/Experiments/blob/master/tbb.sh
> 
> It's nice, you could even pass additional command line parameters such
> as -new-tab.
> 
>> I use this all the time (TBB's version of Firefox plus the latest
>> version of Tor from the Arch Linux repository) and it's a lot less
>> code, so it's easier to maintain in the long run.
> 
> Yes, I believe that works.
> 
> I didn't mess with most parts of the original. One point of the
> repository is upstreaming it. People downloading TBB inside their custom
> Tor proxies should be easily able to modify the stock TBB startup script.
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5611
> 
> The extra code will probable not make maintenance so much more
> difficult. It's unchanged over long amounts of time.

Since we're sharing I do it a little differently:

#!/bin/sh

cd tor-browser_en-US
MOZ_NO_RMEOTE=1
TZ=UTC
TOR_SOCKS_HOST=....
TOR_SOCKS_PORT=....

export TOR_SOCKS_HOST
export TOR_SOCKS_PORT
export MOZ_NO_REMOTE
export TZ

./App/Firefox/firefox -no-remote -profile ./Data/profile




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