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Where does the Tor process open the socksport?
First some background knowledge: Tor Browser runs a Tor process in the background. The Tor process opens a SocksPort on 9150 that Tor Browser uses to proxy its traffic over Tor. Now. Do you want to tell that background Tor process to listen on a different port?
What’s the difference between a controlport and a socksport?
SocksPort is for accepting SOCKS connections from tor clients (=applications that will be “torified”), ControlPort is for communicating with tor controllers, i.e. applications that are interacting and possibly modifying tor’s configuration (like “running config” on Cisco) The SOCKSPort is for talking to other applications.
Which is the control port for Tor in arm?
The control port is used for controlling Tor, usually via other software like Arm. The Socks port is the port running as a SOCKS5 proxy. This is the one you want to use. Please note that Tor is not an HTTP proxy, so your script will need to be configured to use a SOCKS5 proxy.
How to change the listening port of Tor?
I would like to run tor as a single process alone without the browser, so I’ve been launching the tor.exe which exists in [%Tor Directory%]\\Browser\\TorBrowser\\Tor, but first I changed tor’s config file torrc as follow: but the listening port used by tor has never changed, and tor keeps listening on the same default port which is 9050.
Where is the torrc file located in the browser?
Note that “torrc” file is located in [%Tor Directory%]\\Browser\\TorBrowser\\Data. I would like to know why tor is not listening on the configured port? is there any missing step that I should be aware of? The torrc file should be in Browser\\TorBrowser\\Data\\Tor, not Browser\\TorBrowser\\Data.
Is it possible to make Tor your default browser?
There are methods for setting Tor Browser as your default browser, but those methods may not work always or in every operating system. The Tor Browser works hard to isolate itself from the rest of your system, and the steps for making it the default browser are unreliable.
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