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Whenever I launch the Tor Browser, it launches its own local copy of Tor, even though I already have the Tor daemon running from an init script. This means that a surveilleur can tell when I launch the browser, because they can see the secondary Tor connection opening.

Trying to bypass the 'start-tor-browser' script and launching the browser directly is a bad idea. This results in the browser leaking DNS requests and not being able to resolve .onion domains without the help of Privoxy. Actually, it leaks the attempt to look up the .onion domain, too, which can be extremely dangerous.

Trac:
Username: anonymous_person