[tor-talk] Tor already running

[Robert Ransom]

On 8/23/12, Aaron Paden <aaronbpaden at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a simple issue, but important. The script should check to see if
> Tor/Vidalia is already running and just open the browser. As it is, if I
> close the browser, come back some time later, and click the Tor icon, it
> results in an error because Tor is still running in the background.

This is rather hard to do reliably and safely from a shell script, but
other people have asked for this feature too.  See
https://bugs.torproject.org/6023 .

> I
> can't open urls from other applications with the browser for the same
> reason.

No, this is because TBB-Firefox has to be started with the -no-remote
option so that it won't conflict with a non-TBB Firefox.


Robert Ransom