[tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher

[Kristov Atlas]

Then the button should read "change exit node" and not "new identity", no?

> On Jan 27, 2014, at 22:02, Michael Wolf <mikewolf53 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/26/2014 5:57 AM, Lunar wrote:
>> Katya Titov:
>>> New Identity works from both TBB and Vidalia. The difference is that
>>> from TBB the entire browser closes and restarts and you lose open tabs.
>>> When choosing a new identity from Vidalia the browser remains open.
>> 
>> I need to point this out one more time: In the case of the latter,
>> the browser content stays the same. All the browser content. Including
>> cookies, history, and many other things that are used to fingerprint a
>> browser session. This means that from the websites point of view,
>> nothing changes except the IP address. You keep the same identity there.
> 
> Sometimes you don't actually want your "identity" to change, but you
> want to move to a different exit node because there is a connection
> issue between the exit node and the destination.  You're browsing, and
> then your exit node changes after so many minutes... but the new exit
> node could be overloaded so it drops half of the requests coming
> through, or the exit node is banned (HTTP 403) on the site being
> requested, or the exit node is misbehaving and modifying traffic, or...
> 
> At this time, using Vidalia is the only way to change exit nodes without
> losing all your tabs, or to see which exit node is misbehaving.  It
> would be really useful to be able to change exit nodes without Vidalia,
> even if this function is hidden somewhat.
> 
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