[tor-talk] Bring back Vidalia

[C B]

TBB regularly gives me a new exit node without abruptly restarting the browser. What is the harm in allowing me to manually do that when needed? I know how to close the browser, and do that whenever I want, but all I want is a new exit mode. And yes the map and the other things from the control panel would be nice too.
 
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Christopher Booth



----- Original Message -----
From: Moritz Bartl <moritz at torservers.net>
To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Bring back Vidalia

On 04/15/2014 11:33 PM, C B wrote:

> Vidalia window, click "Use a New Identity" and boom you are back 
> in business. SOoooooooooooo much easier.

Well, easier doesn't mean safe. Browsers keep a lot of state around that
can potentially be used to track you across different Tor circuits.
That's why New Identity now restarts the whole browser. Everybody knows
that the usability of that is awful, but there's no better solution
right now.

If Vidalia had any means to control the browser process, it would have
restarted it also in the old design.

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Moritz Bartl
https://www.torservers.net/
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