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It's a modified version of Mozilla Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) that includes TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extensions, and the Tor proxy. If you are running the Tor Browser via the root user with some hack.Tor Browser, previously known as Tor Browser Bundle, is a web browser that protects your privacy while you are surfing the Internet. There we have it, a more considered and better way to run the Tor Browser on Kali Linux! You can also find the Firefox and Tor process running under the non-root user, when using something like top or htop. This should then spawn a Tor connection window followed by the Tor Browser itself (modified version of Firefox). After it runs through the initial setup process, you should eventually see: Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser -detach'. You should find this is being downloaded to the /home/kali directory, rather than root, which is what you want. The first time you run this the Tor Browser files will be downloaded. This can be done like so: sudo -u kali -H torbrowser-launcher ![]() Now you’ll want to run torbrowser-launcher as another user. This should provide permissions for the Tor Browser to run properly as the non-root user. First however, you’ll need to make sure the kali user is listed in xhost otherwise you’re going to loads of errors related to display not being available and GTK errors. ![]() You can however run this command as the kali user, while still logged in as root. You won’t be able to run torbrowser-launcher directly as root, because the same root user check will stop Tor Browser from running. Now comes the slightly more difficult part, but I can ensure you, it won’t involve editing shell scripts. You can install the package through the normal apt process. I use option two, because its a bit more maintainable, supported on Debian and works with Kali Linux as well. Compared to manually downloading and extracting it yourself. Its worth noting that torbrowser-launcher is not officially part of Tor, but it does simplify obtaining and keeping Tor Browser up to date.
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