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Re: [tor-talk] Vidalia has been replaced with Tor Launcher



Lunar:
> Katya Titov:
>> New Identity works from both TBB and Vidalia. The difference is that
>> from TBB the entire browser closes and restarts and you lose open
>> tabs. When choosing a new identity from Vidalia the browser remains
>> open.
> 
> I need to point this out one more time: In the case of the latter,
> the browser content stays the same. All the browser content. Including
> cookies, history, and many other things that are used to fingerprint a
> browser session. This means that from the websites point of view,
> nothing changes except the IP address. You keep the same identity
> there.

Thanks Lunar, this is an excellent point. From my perspective this is
expected and welcome, however others may be looking for something
different.
-- 
kat
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