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



Michael Wolf:
> Sometimes you don't actually want your "identity" to change, but you
> want to move to a different exit node because there is a connection
> issue between the exit node and the destination.  You're browsing, and
> then your exit node changes after so many minutes... but the new exit
> node could be overloaded so it drops half of the requests coming
> through, or the exit node is banned (HTTP 403) on the site being
> requested, or the exit node is misbehaving and modifying traffic, or...
> 
> At this time, using Vidalia is the only way to change exit nodes without
> losing all your tabs, or to see which exit node is misbehaving.  It
> would be really useful to be able to change exit nodes without Vidalia,
> even if this function is hidden somewhat.

I agree, see:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9892

Anyone is welcome to help implementation-wise, as always.

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Lunar                                             <lunar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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