[tor-talk] Tor browser won't become the standard one...

[Wim Van Loock]

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:23:39 +0200
From: "Wim Van Loock" <wim.van.loock at telenet.be>
To: <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org>
Subject: [tor-talk] Tor browser won't become the standard one...
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Hi,

I just entered the Tor-community and can?t set the Tor-browser
as standard. I tried it by using the settings within the browser and also
with the Windows(10) function to assign certain apps to browse or whatever.

In the list provided by W10 are only Chrome(which I normally use), IE and
Edge.
I noticed that your browser is recognized as Firefox by Google. Can there be
a
conflict? Must I install Firefox to get it in that list?

Thanks in advance for any reply.

Greetings from Belgium!

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:55:26 +0200
From: kleft at riseup.net
To: "tor-talk at lists.torproject.org" <tor-talk at lists.torproject.org>
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor browser won't become the standard one...
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Hey Wim,

Did you tried selecting TBBs firefox.exe manually via 'Open with' while
right-clicking an html file?
Works like a charm on my 7x64

Regards,

Andrej

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Andrej I don't know what you mean by TBBs. And  you are mentioning Firefox
but the problem
is with the Tor browser. Meanwhile I also downloaded Firefox and there is
everything ok, simple
settings you can adjust.

Any ideas n e 1 ?

Greetzz

Wim




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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:33:28 +0200
From: kleft <kleft at riseup.net>
To: tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Tor browser won't become the standard one...
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Hey Wim,

When talking about TBB the Tor Browser Bundle is meant. (Including vidalia 
and little-t-tor; You are calling it just Tor Browser but it's the same 
thing)

TBB is built using the Firefox Kernel with some additions/extensions and 
mostly just a secure/careful configuration. So if you are using TBB / the 
Tor Browser you are always using Firefox.

You can manually by following this guide on Option 2. Here you need to 
select the path to your firefox.exe (usually in the "Tor Browser" Folder) 
manually.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/7811-open-change-default-program-windows-8-a.html

Please let us know if this helped,

Andrej


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Andrej,

You won't believe it but right clicking the file doesn't give me the option
to "open with"! I think this must be a Windows 10 thing...

I already noticed a list in W10 where you can connect files to programs to 
open them with.
But I think it's type of file (e.g.  .exe) and then the program..

I'll check it out! 
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I did and indeed, it’s type of file and then you must choose an app.
But it seems Tor isn’t recognised as an app for opening webpages.

On the other hand when I tried it with Firefox itself, that was recognised of course.... 

Tor isn’t even in the list of all apps on the PC, although it works fine.

What’s the next possibility?