Every time I start torbrowser the about:tor page opens. I’ve tried a number of things to stop this behaviour, including some tinkering in about:config, but still about:tor prevails. I don’t need it shown, and because of some custom configuration, I am always told that ‘tor isn’t working’.
It’s very annoying having it pop up with every new torbrowser launch. If possible I do wish to retain it for my main torbrowser, but for my other custom config torbrowsers I don’t want it happening. Can someone explain how to disable it? Many thanks.
Every time I start torbrowser the about:tor page opens.
Using what method?
When using /home/user/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser directly, in Whonix 9, that is stock behavior in any case. That means, the same would happen on plain Debian. Then Whonix - Overview applies. If you reproduce it on plain Debian, you get the ability to ask support questions and feature requests to The Tor Project.
The desktop / start menu icons have been added by Whonix.
package:
main script:
What page to auto open is currently not configureable, but changing LINK=“about:blank” to something else should be not be that hard. I can make that configureable for Whonix 10 through an /etc/torbrowser.d config snippet. No big effort.
and because of some custom configuration, I am always told that 'tor isn't working'.
This can be a bad sign for anonymity by the way.
If possible I do wish to retain it for my main torbrowser, but for my other custom config torbrowsers I don't want it happening. Can someone explain how to disable it?
I am not sure what you're asking. You are using two parallel installations of Tor Browser in different folders? Please see also my signature about effective bug reports.
I have multiple torbrowser installations, one standard one that connects straight through tor, and multiple others that each have a different tunnelled IP/proxy.
All of that works fine. My custom homepage works fine too. What is annoying however is that every time I open torbrowser, I get my homepage, and a few seconds later the about:tor tab opens and takes window focus and I have to close it. It’s a minor quirk but annoying when it’s constant.
The method I use to start my custom torbrowser installations is indeed ‘/home/user/tor-browser1_en-US/start-tor-browser’, with tor-browser2 and tor-browser3 etc. for my other custom installations.
I don’t really see it as a bug, I just though I was missing something and that there was some simple way of disabling the about:tor page manually. If you could make it configurable in Whonix 10 that would be great.
Thanks for your fast reply Patrick, I hope I’ve made some sense.
What you do with custom installs such as /home/user/tor-browser1_en-US/start-tor-browser is up to you. Whonix doesn’t produce Tor Browser, so you’re left with whatever upstream (The Tor Project) provides.