[tor-talk] Tor Browser script pack 0.3: (multiple) Tor Browser, without Tor/Vidalia; behind a transparent proxy or Tor Router

[adrelanos]

Abel Luck:
> adrelanos:
>> The Doctor:
>>> On 10/10/2012 08:59 PM, adrelanos wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alternative startup scripts for the Tor Browser Bundle. For
>>>> starting up Tor Browser without Tor and Vidalia.
>>>
>>> There's an easier way to go about it:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/virtadpt/Experiments/blob/master/tbb.sh
>>
>> It's nice, you could even pass additional command line parameters such
>> as -new-tab.
>>
>>> I use this all the time (TBB's version of Firefox plus the latest
>>> version of Tor from the Arch Linux repository) and it's a lot less
>>> code, so it's easier to maintain in the long run.
>>
>> Yes, I believe that works.
>>
>> I didn't mess with most parts of the original. One point of the
>> repository is upstreaming it. People downloading TBB inside their custom
>> Tor proxies should be easily able to modify the stock TBB startup script.
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5611
>>
>> The extra code will probable not make maintenance so much more
>> difficult. It's unchanged over long amounts of time.
> 
> Since we're sharing I do it a little differently:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> cd tor-browser_en-US
> MOZ_NO_RMEOTE=1
> TZ=UTC
> TOR_SOCKS_HOST=....
> TOR_SOCKS_PORT=....
> 
> export TOR_SOCKS_HOST
> export TOR_SOCKS_PORT
> export MOZ_NO_REMOTE
> export TZ
> 
> ./App/Firefox/firefox -no-remote -profile ./Data/profile

The "cd tor-browser_en-US" stops one from creating a copy of the folder
and to use it independently, which is quite useful for backups.