Disable TOR in TorBrowser 9

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Iam using whonix with Windows.
And use Tor browser without Tor (/wiki/Tor_Browser_without_Tor)
but in torbrowser 9 this article didnt work.
How i can disable tor?

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I am not sure we still need that page.

This page might be replacing it:

But that doesn’t answer your question.

It’s currently undocumented.

Setting these environment varialbes might help.

TOR_HIDE_UPDATE_CHECK_UI=1
TOR_NO_DISPLAY_NETWORK_SETTINGS=1
TOR_HIDE_BROWSER_LOGO=1
TOR_SKIP_CONTROLPORTTEST=1
TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1
TOR_TRANSPROXY=1

(Most relevant to the question is TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 - that should prevent the integrated Tor from starting - it does so on Linux and might work on Windows too.)
(These are taken from here.)

Please someone research how to set windows environment variable and then add to documentation.

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This page documents how Anonymize Other Operating Systems

The Tor Launcher is now integrated directly in the Tor Browser rather than as an extension in 9.0.

Only TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1 is needed to disable Tor. The rest aren’t really needed. TOR_HIDE_UPDATE_CHECK_UI=1 might be dangerous as it doesn’t alert the user of updates (I think) and TOR_TRANSPROXY=1 prevents the user from using any other proxy (e.g. if using a different socks port).

TOR_NO_DISPLAY_NETWORK_SETTINGS=1 might not do anything anymore as the onion button is gone.

Already in the wiki page I linked above.

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Tell me please how i can do it in Windows?

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I just told you. Read the linked documentation.

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Thank you sir
For other people who carried about that question
Create “start.bat” file:
SET TOR_SKIP_LAUNCH=1
SET TOR_TRANSPROXY=1
“Start Tor Browser.lnk”

SET TOR_TRANSPROXY=1 is neccesary and browser dont work without it.

Thanks for answering !

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Created review Tor Browser environment variables (TOR_HIDE_UPDATE_CHECK_UI) for it.

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