Windows Environmental Variables not usable in Profiles.ini when deploying tor browser across a domain
We run a domain and tor.exe as nt services on the DC's. We are trying to deploy torbrowser, by request of users, for its privacy features. I setup a default profile to deploy to the user's roaming profiles and torbrowser's profiles.ini ( in %ProgramFiles(X86)% ) is set to look for them in "Path=%Appdata%\TB\Profile" (Profiles.ini config). However, torbrowser refuses to litigate environmental variables of the domain ( %variable%).
For security, our users cannot run .exe's on the domain that are not installed in either of the Program Files locations or the windows directory; we must deploy it this way, which is also the corrrect way, per MCSE and RFC's.
Firefox has no problem doing this, which we have had deployed the same for years. I am even giving current users an option to COPY their firefox profile as their torbrowser profile instead of copying from the Domain's Skeleton where I have put a default torbrowser profile.
Of course, since we have tor running on port 1080 of the DC's and have configured load balancing and the default profile to use it, I removed tor launcher from tor browser; It's just the browser that they're running as their username. It would be unwise and ridiculous to have 10,000 tor.exe's running, one for each logged in user.
I even setup the tor's to utilize our ipv6 native network, which the clients running tor.exe wouldn't be able to do if we allowed tor.exe to run on the workstations.
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