Two issues: First, the tor project is asking distros not to build the tor browser themselves. That includes Guix. That is because a build with Guix will make it distinguishable from the tor-browser built by the tor project.
Second, the tor-browser built by the tor project assumes FHS (/bir, /lib, etc) which guix doesn.t provide, so you can't run it directly. Of course it's not great for anonymity since icecat is way more distinguishable than the tor-browser built by guix would be. You could use different profiles in icecat, one with tor settings, one without. You can run icecat -P to select profiles. Le 24 juillet 2022 12:20:25 GMT+02:00, Gottfried <[email protected]> a écrit : >Thanks for clearing up. > >Would it be not a good idea to set up Tor Browser in Guix, that we would be >able to use Tor only for certain webbrowsing and Icecat for the normal usage? > >I don't know if somebody has time to do it. >Gottfried > > > >Am 24.07.22 um 12:13 schrieb Julien Lepiller: >> No, there's no tor-browser on guix. Tor is running as a separate daemon and >> changing the settings instruct icecat to connect through the tor daemon. >> >> Le 24 juillet 2022 12:04:47 GMT+02:00, Gottfried <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >>> Hi, >>> thanks a lot. It worked. >>>> You can't "run tor in icecat" that doesn't make sense. Maybe you meant >>>> something else? >>> >>> Exactly, that what I meant. I can't run Tor in Icecat. It doesn't make >>> sense. >>> >>> But in changing the settings in Icecat to using Tor, I understand, that it >>> is like this. Tor is used in Icecat and there is not a separate Tor >>> Browser. Am I right? >>> >>> Gottfried >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Am 22.07.22 um 17:20 schrieb Julien Lepiller: >>>> You can't "run tor in icecat" that doesn't make sense. Maybe you meant >>>> something else? >>>> >>>> If you don't want icecat to use tor, keep your current settings. >>>> >>>> For using tor in icecat, in your network settings: >>>> >>>> Select "Manuelle Proxy-Konfiguration" >>>> SOCKS host is localhost, SOCKS port is 9050 >>>> Select SOCKS v5 >>>> Select "Bei Verwendung von SOCKS v5 den Proxy für DNS-Anfragen verwenden" >>>> >>>> Then check with the tor project URL I sent you that you are connecting >>>> through tor. >>> >>
