I recently upgraded from whonix 15 to 16. Everything is looking great so far, except I’m not getting my exit IP changed frequently enough on the Tor Browser.
Before with 15 I would refresh on hxxps://icanhazip.com and get a new public IP. Now it takes matters of minutes.
Is there a way for the Tor Browser to use multiple SOCKs proxies like curl and other tools use on the CLI? I would like for my IP to change more frequently when using the Tor Browser.
Only “New Tor Circuit for this Site” (Ctrl+Shift+L) or New Identity (Ctrl+Shift+U) is supposed to give you a new circuit, and even such a new circuit can be expected to sometimes coincidentally use the same exit, which is fine.
If you’re simply reloading the page using the refresh button (Ctrl+R or Ctrl+Shift+R) then circuit reuse is intentional, and the previous behavior you experienced on Whonix 15 sounds like a bug.
Ah you know it is quite possible I am getting confused with uwt supported CLI tools like curl. I was hoping to get a new exit IP each time I refreshed a page with the Tor Browser.
But if this is working as designed then I’d say case closed haha.