Where is Tor Browser opening Transmission from? How can I open the "same" Transmission?

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Published on 2012-05-16T21:50:40Z Indexed on 2012/09/13 9:50 UTC
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When I launch Tor-Browser, it first launches Vidalia, then a special version of Firefox bundled with the Tor Browser package. If I try to download a (legal!) torrent in the Tor Browser version of Firefox, it launches Transmission to do so.

IF I launch Transmission from within the Tor Browser, it will remember my current torrents. This persists from one Tor Browser session to the next, including logouts, shutdowns, etc.

If, however, I try to launch Transmission from its location (usr/bin/transmission-gtk), it starts Transmission "fresh" without remembering any torrents or other settings.

I assume Transmission is somehow loading another version of itself for Firefox -- the one that remembers things -- that isn't somewhere I can find it.

Only one transmission-gtk executable appears when I search my file system... the one in usr/bin.

What's going on? How can I open Transmission and have it "remember" things without having to start a torrent on Tor-Browser first?

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