Both, a starter for Tor Browser. Provides security hardening, integration with Debian, Whonix and Qubes.
Starter.
- Tor Browser Starter start menu entry and
/usr/bin/torbrowserstarter. Starts/home/user/.tb/tor-browser/start-tor-browser.
When config option tb_hardening=true is set or when using command line option --hardening, firejail will be used.
Uses open-link-confirmation if available.
Prompts to install the browser if not yet installed.
Changes directory into browser directly before startup.
Custom homepage support.
Qubes integration.
Sanity tests:
- Aborts if detected being run as root.
- Aborts in Qubes TemplateVM.
- Aborts in Qubes DVM Template.
- Waits for Qubes mount dirs and gui agent being ready.
In Qubes AppVM copies browser from root image to private image at first start.
Tor Browser documentation by Whonix.
This package is produced independently of, and carries no guarantee from, The Tor Project.
1. Download the APT Signing Key.
wget https://www.kicksecure.com/keys/derivative.asc
Users can check the Signing Key for better security.
2. Add the APT Signing Key.
sudo cp ~/derivative.asc /usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc
3. Add the derivative repository.
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/derivative.asc] https://deb.kicksecure.com bookworm main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/derivative.list
4. Update your package lists.
sudo apt-get update
5. Install tb-starter.
sudo apt-get install tb-starter
Can be build using standard Debian package build tools such as:
dpkg-buildpackage -b
See instructions.
NOTE: Replace generic-package with the actual name of this package tb-starter.
- A) easy, OR
- B) including verifying software signatures
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