#15185 closed defect (worksforme)
Tor Browser: open URL from command line
Reported by: | ilf | Owned by: | tbb-team |
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Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | |
Component: | Applications/Tor Browser | Version: | |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | tbb-usability |
Cc: | Actual Points: | ||
Parent ID: | Points: | ||
Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
Description
I'd like to make Tor Browser my default browser by symlinking /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser to it.
However, using /path/to/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser https://check.torproject.org/
results in the error message:
Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
Using /path/to/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/firefox
gives the same result.
Child Tickets
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by
Keywords: | tbb-usability added |
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Severity: | → Normal |
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by
Resolution: | → worksforme |
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Status: | new → closed |
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by
Have you tried it? This doesn't work for me:
- Start
/path/to/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser --allow-remote
- Try
/path/to/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser https://check.torproject.org/
- Error:
Tor Browser is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Tor Browser process, or restart your system.
Same thing with -new-tab
.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by
Yes. But I wasn't clear enough, you need to start it with --allow-remote
but you also need the option when sending a command, like opening a URL. So add it as well to your 2nd command line.
Unlike Firefox, Tor Browser defaults to
--no-remote
. So for that to work you need to have started it with--allow-remote
.I believe the reason for disabling this by default is making foot-shooting harder for users. So keep that in mind.
(BTW, never try to run the firefox binary directly, unless you know well what you're doing.)