[tor-talk] Running two TBBs at a time

[antispam06 at sent.at]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012, at 14:11, andrew at torproject.is wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:03:48PM +0200, antispam06 at sent.at wrote 0.5K
> bytes in 12 lines about:
> : This is a silly idea. But how about it? Can I tweak the pack somehow so
> : I get two TorBrowser windows working independent of one another? Do I
> : need two Vidalias too? The idea would be to have my regular web
> : connection and one obvious ID, than running TBB as Johnny Nobody
> : himself, and a third instance for Jacky Somebody. Sounds like a
> : solution to storm Wikipedia, but it's not.
> 
> I had 2 minutes to spare, so I tried it on linux. It works fine. Just
> extract tbb to a different directory. The challenge is in remembering
> which vidalia goes to which torbrowser window.

I forgot to answer that: have more desktops. And do not click on hide.
That way each instance is clearly separated.

BTW: if I use personas to visually differentiate between firefoxes,
would TBB tell it to some crafty sever? Is the browser skin leaked?