you can disable tor by manipulating the daemon through upstart.
You can remove tor and then you download tor browser bundle from the tor
website, which is more secure then usin it with icecat..
sudo apt-get remove --purge tor
sudo apt-get autoremove
https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en
cheers
I almost never have the private window open. It happens even when I don't
have it open.
Having the tor daemon running in your computer is not detectable from the
outside. What you are experiencing is that -as stated in the torproxy addon
popup- while you have one private window open *all* traffic from the browser
goes through tor. You cannot have non-private and private windows
I love Tor. I like how Icecat makes it so that when you are in private mode
it routes everything through Tor. My problem is that Tor is running all the
time, many many websites will not let me look at them if they detect a Tor
node active at my IP address. How do I make it so that Tor is not