www-client/torbrowser ignored environment variables. about torbrowser-overlay HOT 14 CLOSED

Does it work if you launch torbrowser from your terminal like:

TOR_CONTROL_PORT=9151 TOR_SOCKS_PORT=9150 torbrowser

What's the output of

env | grep TOR_

from torbrowser-overlay.

> env | grep TOR_
TOR_CONTROL_HOST=127.0.0.1
TOR_CONTROL_PORT=9051
TOR_SOCKS_HOST=127.0.0.1
TOR_SOCKS_PORT=9050

torbrowser literally ignores TOR_SOCKS_HOST and TOR_SOCKS_PORT. torbrowser manages its own internal socks port number that I can configure in preferences.

I cannot configure TOR_CONTROL_PORT in torbrowser.

from torbrowser-overlay.

Does it work if you launch torbrowser from your terminal like:

TOR_CONTROL_PORT=9151 TOR_SOCKS_PORT=9150 torbrowser

How about that? Maybe the variables are not exported to your desktop environment.

from torbrowser-overlay.

I can not reproduce your issue. All the variables in /etc/env.d/99torbrowser do work here.

from torbrowser-overlay.

Maybe the variables are not exported to your desktop environment.

It's exported to my i3 session. I checked it in a terminal emulator in my i3 session.

from torbrowser-overlay.

I executed

env TOR_CONTROL_PORT=9051 TOR_SOCKS_PORT=9050 torbrowser

torbrowser's internal socks proxy configuration overrides environment variables. Environment variables are ignored.

You can find internal socks proxy configuration at

Preferences -> General -> Network Proxy -> Settings

Perhaps, you didn't try to change tor ports. The default socks proxy port is 9150 in torbrowser.

from torbrowser-overlay.

torbrowser's internal socks proxy configuration overrides environment variables. Environment variables are ignored.

I've changed nothing in torbrowser's internal configuration and the environment variables are honoured. So I guess you have to use either way to configure torbrowser to your liking.

Perhaps, you didn't try to change tor ports. The default socks proxy port is 9150 in torbrowser.

I actually use TOR_SOCKS_IPC_PATH=/var/run/tor/socks and TOR_CONTROL_IPC_PATH=/var/run/tor/control in /etc/env.d/99torbrowser and it's working just fine.

from torbrowser-overlay.

I deleted

• ~/.mozilla/torbrowser
• ~/.cache

Suddenly, torbrowser starts allowing environment variables to override internal settings.
How weird. It seems that settings from torbrowser-launcher break torbrowser.

from torbrowser-overlay.

It seems that settings from torbrowser-launcher breaks torbrowser.

That might be, I don't know. I personally don't use torbrowser-launcher

from torbrowser-overlay.

This issue seems solved. Do you use cookie authentication for control port?
It seems to me that any authentication method that exposes the credential as an environment variable is not safe.

from torbrowser-overlay.

Do you use cookie authentication for control port?

TOR_SOCKS_IPC_PATH=/var/run/tor/socks and TOR_CONTROL_IPC_PATH=/var/run/tor/control in conjuction with

SocksPort unix:/var/run/tor/socks GroupWritable
ControlPort unix:/var/run/tor/control GroupWritable

as my tor config.

from torbrowser-overlay.

What are the user and the group of tor instance for torbrowser?

from torbrowser-overlay.

I have the same issue with the following uses:

[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[        : I - package is installed with flag     ]
[ Colors : set, unset                             ]
 * Found these USE flags for www-client/torbrowser-115.7.0_p13009:
 U I
 + + X                  : Add support for X11
 + + clang              : Use Clang compiler instead of GCC
 + + dbus               : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
 - - hardened           : Activate default security enhancements for toolchain (gcc, glibc, binutils)
 + + pulseaudio         : Add sound server support via media-libs/libpulse (may be PulseAudio or PipeWire)
 + + system-av1         : Use the system-wide media-libs/dav1d and media-libs/libaom library instead of bundled
 + + system-harfbuzz    : Use the system-wide media-libs/harfbuzz and media-gfx/graphite2 instead of bundled
 + + system-icu         : Use the system-wide dev-libs/icu instead of bundled
 + + system-jpeg        : Use the system-wide media-libs/libjpeg-turbo instead of bundled
 + + system-libevent    : Use the system-wide dev-libs/libevent instead of bundled
 + + system-libvpx      : Use the system-wide media-libs/libvpx instead of bundled
 + + system-png         : Use the system-wide media-libs/libpng instead of bundled (requires APNG patches)
 - - system-python-libs : Use system's python site instead of bundled python libraries
 + + system-webp        : Use the system-wide media-libs/libwebp instead of bundled
 - - wayland            : Enable dev-libs/wayland backend

Tor Browser will not use environment variables for SOCKS5 proxy, no matter if I use TCP SOCKS5 or UNIX socket SOCKS5. I can see in /proc/pid/environ that the environment variables are indeed set for tor browser, but in about:config I can see that it still uses port 9150 for connections which are then refused.

Any ideas?

from torbrowser-overlay.

Did you try with a fresh profile as mentioned in #34 (comment)?

The new locations are:

~/.torproject/torbrowser/
~/.cache/torproject/

from torbrowser-overlay.