Hi, Thanks for the answer Andrew.
> Likely, you're missing some torbutton protections. I don't understand what protection could be lost when using TBB Firefox together with a local TOR. Beside the control features that Vidalia provides nothing should be different. Firefox is using 127.0.0.1:9050 and the local TOR is listening. What protection could be missed there? Sam On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Andrew Lewman <and...@torproject.org> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:34:10 +0000 > Tor User0000 <toruser0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Are there plans to give Linux users the choice to run the installed >> version of TOR instead of the TBB one? > > Currently, no. There have been many debates over how to handle system > tor versus the tor shipped with tbb. To date, there is no clean > consensus on how to do this safely and without violating local OS > permissions or modes of operations. > >> If that is not the case, am I doing good by using the local installed >> TOR (debian-tor) together with firefox (only) in your bundle? > > Likely, you're missing some torbutton protections. > > Here's the design doc on torbrowser, > https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ that shows the > difference between stock firefox and our firefox-based torbrowser. > > -- > Andrew > http://tpo.is/contact > pgp 0x74ED336B > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk