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I understand the privacy aspects of TOR, and I fully support the idea of the TOR Browser, but holy jumped-up jesus on a birch-bark canoe is it fucking slow.....
When it takes, on average, almost five minutes for ANY webpage I try to access to load, that's just not a useable browser, imho. This is 2022, not 1995.
when did you last use it? it hasn't been that way for me in ages.
also -> https://blog.torproject.org/congestion-contrl-047/
I use it often and it doesn't really seem slow to me.
In case you don't already know, Firefox with a separate Tor connection is easier to fingerprint than an unmodified Tor Browser (unless you've configured Firefox to camouflage as TB)
It breaks websites? Are you talking about the experimental fingerprinting protection in Firefox? By "fingerprinting", I meant the general tracking of unique properties of your browser (settings, add-ons, user agents, etc.), not the Firefox-specific anti-fingerprinting.
I agree that Tor is better in many situations.
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Do you have a link to a guide for setting that up? I know that I can right-click on a link to open as a container. But would be cool to see how to try a setup like you have.
Thanks for the info! I am using Windows, but I downloaded the extension and tor zip for advanced Windows on their site. Created a torrc file and set it to the localhost:9050 and created a "tor" container. And just tested it with the check.torproject.org site (both with a normal tab and a "tor" container tab) with success! Good to know random things that might be very worth knowing.