Built on the source code of Chromium, it actively blocks all kinds of ads, scripts, and plug-ins that can be used to track/log your browsing activities.
Loaded with top of the line privacy enhancing features, Epic does its name full justice. Not exactly, as there are quite a few Tor browser alternatives that you can use. Can’t wait to find out more? Keep reading, folks! But as impressive as it is, is Tor the only one of its kind out there? There are also other features, such as script blocking, and automatic HTTPS enforcing.
Without a doubt the most popular secure browser out there, Tor bounces your communication through a network of volunteer relays, thus effectively anonymizing it. And this is where privacy-centric browsers, such as Tor, come to help. private browsing, ability to delete browsing history), but these don’t stop the websites, ISP servers etc. You successfully configured Tor Browser as your default browser.Now, all regular browsers like Google Chrome do have some basic privacy features (e.g. For example my shortcut in the task bar calls "C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Tor Browser\Browser\firefox.exe" -osint. To prevent that you have to always start Tor Browser with the -osint option. If you try the above, you'll see the "Tor Browser is already running" message, when other applications try to open a website while the browser is already open. Select Tor Browser and click to set it as default program for all associated formats. Go to the Windows Control Panel and open the Default Programs option. Save and double click the file, to add registry entries for Tor Browser. "FriendlyTypeName"="Tor Browser Browser\\Browser\\firefox.exe\" -osint -url \"%1\"" "Tor Browser"="Software\\Tor Browser\\Capabilities" "ApplicationIcon"="C:\\Users\\MyUser\\AppData\\Local\\Tor Browser\\Browser\\firefox.exe,0"
"ApplicationDescription"="Tor Browser - Anonymity Online" Replace C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Local\Tor Browser by your installation path (back slashes must be escaped with back slashes). Therefore create a file torbrowser.reg with following content. We need to enable Tor Browser to be shown in the "Set your default programs" window. Probably both browsers use the same marker for the -osint flag, so that you have to close one browser completely before starting the other one.įirst disable "Always check if Tor Browser is your default browser", because the dialog would still show up on every start, even if you follow this instructions.Ģ. Note that you cannot open Firefox and Tor Browser in parallel when using this solution. I successfully configured Tor Browser 5.0.1 as default browser in Windows 8.
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