People want to:
- Start Tor Browser Bundle. Close Tor Browser for various reasons ^1^, leave Tor and/or Vidalia running for various reasons ^2^ and restart Tor Browser later. (#6023 (closed)) (Tor FAQ) (#6090 (closed))
- Start only Vidalia/Tor, but do not start Tor Browser.
- Thunderbird with TorBirdy wants to use Tor/Vidalia from the bundle or a locally installed Tor/Vidalia. TorBirdy also depends on privoxy.
- Tor IM Bundle (blog) want to use Tor/Vidalia form the bundle or a locally installed Tor/Vidalia.
- Ubuntu users (and probable other deb based distributions) want to 'apt-get install tor vidalia torbrowser' from torproject.org repository (#5236 (moved))
- Debian users want to 'apt-get install tor vidalia torbrowser' from Debian repository (#3994 (moved))
- Start Tor Browser with command line arguments supported by Firefox, such as open an extra tab. (#6053 (moved))
- Reopen Tor Browser from Vidalia. (#6090 (closed)) (#5693 (closed))
- Subsequently also reopen Tor-IM from Vidalia.
- Developers want to make their portable Tor Bundle packages. For example: BitCoin, OperaTor, torchat, [pidgin-torchat, jtorchat. But (some/most) of that projects would like to play well with a locally installed Tor/Vidalia as well.
- Tails (has their own Tor/Vidala integration) wants to use Tor Browser. (Tails todo)
- Use Tor Browser behind transparent or isolating proxies. (#5611 (moved))
- Tell Vidalia, they want to avoid connecting to the public Tor network. (#2905 (closed))
- To use environment variable TOR_TRANSPROXY=1. (#6254 (closed)) (#5658 (closed))
- Have a handshake protocol between Vidalia, Tor Browser, Tor, Tor Router. (#5658 (closed))
- Use environment variables for configuring. (#5611 (moved)) Example:
TB_HTTP=127.0.0.1:8118
TB_HTTP=""
TB_SSL=127.0.0.1:8118
TB_FTP=127.0.0.1:8118
TB_GOPHER=127.0.0.1:8118
TB_SOCKS=192.168.0.1:9100
TB_NO_PROXY=127.0.0.1;128.0.0.1;... (ports ignored)
TOR_TRANSPROXY=1
TB_RECOMMEND=1 (set back recommend default proxy settings)- Stream isolate Tor Browser, Tor IM, Thunderbird with TorBirdy and third party applications. (#6359) Due to lack of SocksAuth support in Firefox and Thunderbird, this requires using multiple Tor SocksPorts.
- Use multiple instances of Tor Browser at the same time.
- Independently run Firefox (non-Tor) and Tor Browser (Tor) at the same time.
- Application developers (torchat, BitCoin) want to have hidden service as incoming address for their application.
,, ^1^ 1. Safe RAM, 2. Restart in case of a bug, 3. revert to a clean state (things Tor Button does not implement yet to clean up with switch identity feature)
,, ^2^ 1. To speed up the startup process of Tor Browser, 2. to use the running Tor instance for other torified applications
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