Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-11-04 Thread Joe
In general, Tor Browser doesn't write any history to disk - by design.  If you look in about:config at settings whether to use disk cache, it should be set to false. browser.cache.disk.enable;false If you have enough RAM, you can do the same in regular Firefox. Allow enough memory to handle

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-10-12 Thread Mirimir
On 10/12/2018 01:47 PM, Nick Levinson wrote: >> This is the use case for Tails. . . . [T]here are no writes to storage, >> unless users configure [otherwise] . . . . > > One need not use Tails to use Tor (I used to sometimes use Tor and never used > Tails), so, while Tails may be a good idea,

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-10-12 Thread bo0od
add the updated tests , the wiki even accept anonymous edits. you can discuss that openly in the forum of Whonix as well. (though, i dont see much changes that would make Tor safer only through the amnesic usage) intrigeri: > bo0od: >> There is a full comparison of Tails and Whonix (persistent

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-10-12 Thread intrigeri
bo0od: > There is a full comparison of Tails and Whonix (persistent virtual OS) > can be found here: > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others#Introduction FTR the Tails part of that page is quite outdated. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-10-12 Thread bo0od
Not really Tor is the best practice using it with amnesic system like Tails due to the guards entry issue .. There is a full comparison of Tails and Whonix (persistent virtual OS) can be found here: Clearnet Link:- https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Comparison_with_Others#Introduction Onion Link:-

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-10-05 Thread Mirimir
On 10/05/2018 05:19 PM, Nick Levinson wrote: > This replies to a September 26 post with the same title. > It took some effort to find the bug in FF, it took some more effort > to convince people at FF that data is persistently stored, and a FF > derivative is being used in Tor, so I would not

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-09-26 Thread Joe
Sorry for this (one) top post - just wanted you & any others new to the Tor Browser & the whole family of software from Tor Project, not to be misinformed. You cited a cookie or history issue in Firefox.  You expected Firefox history - accumulated during NON-private browsing, to be

Re: [tor-talk] if browser remembers URLs visited before shutdown even during Never Remember History

2018-09-25 Thread Nick Levinson
On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 2:01:04 AM EDT, Joe wrote: > * * * * *> Is the claim that Firefox (vs. TorBrowser, based on Firefox esr version) stores visited URLs in places.sqlite regardless of settings under > Privacy & Security? > The subject of this message is confusing.  Is it asking