Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor is great, but it's always running in the background...

2015-01-29 Thread maestro
You can remove tor and then you download tor browser bundle from the tor website, which is more secure then usin it with icecat.. sudo apt-get remove --purge tor sudo apt-get autoremove https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor is great, but it's always running in the background...

2015-01-29 Thread franparpe
you can disable tor by manipulating the daemon through upstart.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor is great, but it's always running in the background...

2015-01-28 Thread lovexdrew
I almost never have the private window open. It happens even when I don't have it open.

[Trisquel-users] Tor is great, but it's always running in the background...

2015-01-28 Thread lovexdrew
I love Tor. I like how Icecat makes it so that when you are in private mode it routes everything through Tor. My problem is that Tor is running all the time, many many websites will not let me look at them if they detect a Tor node active at my IP address. How do I make it so that Tor is not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tor is great, but it's always running in the background...

2015-01-28 Thread ruben
Having the tor daemon running in your computer is not detectable from the outside. What you are experiencing is that -as stated in the torproxy addon popup- while you have one private window open *all* traffic from the browser goes through tor. You cannot have non-private and private windows