I use Tor, but I cannot stand the TBB. Too buggy and pathetically slow. I have a powerful Ubuntu laptop and the Tor Browser Bundle gets so bogged down and unusable that I stop using it...
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/08/2013 01:50 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > > On 11/08/2013 03:38 AM, Lunar wrote: > >> Anthony Papillion: > >>> I'm helping a friend set up Tor on Xubuntu. He's gotten the non-TBB > >>> package and has Tor set to run each time he logs into his computer > (it's > >>> running as a relay). He also wants to be able to use Tor Browser to > use > >>> Tor too. Do I need to manually configure Firefox or is there a way to > >>> get the Firefox in the TBB to run properly when Tor is being run > separately? > >> > >> The Tor Browser Bundle and a system-wide Tor should run alongside > >> happily. Just unpack and use the Tor Browser Bundle as you would on > >> another system. > > > > Hmm. In his case (and in a test case I'm running) if I have Tor running > > already TBB fails when Vidalia starts saying it can't bind to the > > listening ports. This is expected, I'd think, since the ports are > > already in use when the TBB tries to bind to them. > > > > Am I missing something? > > You can change ports on the installed Tor instance. You might also need > to mess with other settings. > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ryan The Winner <[email protected]> -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
