Inaccurate and confusing Support doc can mislead macOS users into incorrectly using Tor Browser with two simultaneous instances of the Tor-Browser Data folder.
Tor Browser 8.5.4 on macOS 10.14.5 Mojave.
How do I uninstall Tor Browser?
https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-28/
The following inaccurate and confusing language pertaining to macOS appears in the documentation:
Locate your Tor Browser folder or application. The default location on Windows is the Desktop; on macOS it is the Applications folder (on macOS, you have to move it into the Applications folder when you complete the installation process).
The documentation inaccurately states, on macOS it is in the Applications folder (on macOS, you have to move it into the Application folder when you complete the installation process).
A user will be unable to find the Tor-Browser Data folder in /Applications
because the Tor-Browser Data folder does not install in /Applications
.
By default, the Tor-Browser Data folder installs in ~/Library/Application Support
.
~/Applications
.
And, by default, TorBrowser.app installs in Duplicate the issue:
Per the inaccurate and confusing language pertaining to macOS in the documentation , a user moves the Tor-Browser Data folder to /Applications
.
When the user quits and restarts Tor Browser, no Tor-Browser Data folder is present in its default location ~/Library/Application Support
; thus, Tor Browser.app installs a new instance of the Tor-Browser Data folder in ~/Library/Application Support
.
The computer now has two separate and simultaneous instances of the Tor-Browser Data folder.
/Applications
, and the other Tor-Browser Data folder is in ~/Library/Application Support
.
One Tor-Browser Data folder is in To avoid the possibility of confusing or misleading users into mistaken attempts to use Tor Browser with two separate and simultaneous instances of the Tor-Browser Data folder, we should change the inaccurate and misleading language pertaining to macOS in the referenced documentation to reflect something like the following:
On macOS, by default, your Tor-Browser Data folder installs in ~/Library/Application Support. On macOS, by default, your TorBrowser.app installs in /Applications. To uninstall Tor Browser, delete your Tor-Browser Data folder and delete your TorBrowser.app.
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Username: monmire