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There are people that customize Firefox with plugins to make it look like TorBundle. All you need is FoxyProxy[0] hooked up to tor and a useragent spoofer which mimics common TorBundle useragent strings and you're set. This is very dangerous though as FoxyProxy could potentially leak your IP, aswell as a slew of other things that could go wrong.

TorBundle devs have stripped out a tonne of things which increase attack surfaces and the fingerprintability of mainline Firefox. Best just blending in and looking like everyone else and use TorBundle.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foxyproxy-sta...



Indeed, https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

Not only that, using the particular setup you're describing, you wont have stream isolation, so all of your website browsing can be watched by a single exit node (whereas with the Tor Browser each site has its own circuit) which makes correlation attacks much damaging (whole browsing history in a session vs 1 site).




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