Created a Tor Browser without Tor “VM” and Tor daemon returns the same result as the above post. Meaning that test was invalid.
Edit: The VM that I used was created some time ago with a mix of Tor Browser (GUI) and CLI instructions from the previous wiki page. (meaning instructions are a little different now). IIRC the $HOME/.tb/path/to/user.js
edits were not sufficient.
Note: will be referring to this VM as “tor-browser-test
”
user@tor-browser-test:~$ sudo systemctl status tor@default
● tor@default.service - Anonymizing overlay network for TCP
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/tor@default.service; static; vendor prese
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/tor@default.service.d
└─30_qubes.conf
Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-12-29 21:15:39 EST; 35s ago
Process: 633 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-ser
Process: 609 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/install -Z -m 02755 -o debian-tor -g debian
Main PID: 707 (tor)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/system-tor.slice/tor@default.service
└─707 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaul
Dec 29 21:15:45 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 50%: Loading relay descr
Dec 29 21:15:45 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: The current consensus contains exit n
Dec 29 21:15:46 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 55%: Loading relay descr
Dec 29 21:15:46 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 62%: Loading relay descr
Dec 29 21:15:46 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 68%: Loading relay descr
Dec 29 21:15:47 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 78%: Loading relay descr
Dec 29 21:15:47 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the T
Dec 29 21:15:47 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor
Dec 29 21:15:48 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Tor has successfully opened a circuit
Dec 29 21:15:48 tor-browser-test Tor[707]: Bootstrapped 100%: Done
When sys-firewall
was set as NetVM for tor-browser-test
, there were no issues with clearnet connectivity. However, even after setting network.dns.blockDotOnion
in about:config
, I was not able to connect to any .onion sites (whonix, qubes, torproject).
Also of note, I received the warning:
Something Went Wrong! Tor is not working in this browser.
Output of: ps aux | grep tor
debian-+ 707 0.1 0.9 89320 36400 ? Ss 21:15 0:01 /usr/bin/tor --defaults-torrc /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc -f /etc/tor/torrc --RunAsDaemon 0
When sys-whonix
was set to NetVM I was able to connect to onion sites. However, I did not receive the warning “Something Went Wrong! Tor is not working in this browser.”
For clarity, for now this is just for testing to use for comparson. If anyone would like to use these instructions this should be kept that in mind.