How technically difficult would it be to remove Vidalia from an already-packaged TBB? (Ideally something that could be put into a shell script.) Basically what I want is a more-current-than-ESR10 browser that uses a system-installed & -configured Tor instance.
I wouldn't miss the Torbutton UI, either (it should just use Tor all the time).
Zack Weinberg:
How technically difficult would it be to remove Vidalia from an already-packaged TBB?
For *nix? I'd say trivial, once you figured out how (with basic sysadmin skills).
Win*: no idea.
Continuing for *nix...
As for the figure out part, for TBB stable, see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/WebBrowsers#Us...
Should be also helpful with little modification: https://whonix.org/wiki/Manually_Updating_Tor_Browser
For TBB Alpha, notice that: ## Deactivate tor-launcher, ## a Vidalia replacement as browser extension, ## to prevent running Tor over Tor. ## https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6009 ## https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-launcher.git export TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1
(Ideally something that could be put into a
shell script.)
Yes, its just a shell script modification or custom startup script.
Basically what I want is a more-current-than-ESR10
browser that uses a system-installed & -configured Tor instance.
I wouldn't miss the Torbutton UI, either (it should just use Tor all
the time).
All possible.
You don't need to modify any TB (Tor Browser) socks settings, if you open a local Tor SocksPort 9150 in torrc. And for ControlPort, just open a Tor ControlPort on 9151.
If Tor is running on a different machine, running rinetd on 127.0.0.1:9150 and 9151 and forwarding to other IP/port can do the trick as well.
Not sure what you want to do, but I am quite confident I can help out due to my experience of getting Tor Browser to run in Whonix, where Tor is running on a separate machine.
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
How technically difficult would it be to remove Vidalia from an already-packaged TBB? (Ideally something that could be put into a shell script.) Basically what I want is a more-current-than-ESR10 browser that uses a system-installed & -configured Tor instance.
I wouldn't miss the Torbutton UI, either (it should just use Tor all the time).
You could change the startup scripts to do all the launching that Vidalia does, check error codes, etc.
But before doing that, you should check out TBB 3.0: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-bundle-30alpha2-released and see if it is already what you wanted.
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