Tor Browser: how do I restart just the browser?

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Published on 2013-06-24T16:13:35Z Indexed on 2013/06/24 16:25 UTC
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I'm using Tor Browser on Linux from time to time, but I close the browser because it has high memory usage, and leave Vidala running in background to help the network and relay traffic.

The problem is, when I want to use Tor Browser again, I have to shut down Vidala and start it again. This takes time and has negative effect on the network.

When I execute ./App/Firefox/firefox-bin, the browser starts but says it's not connected via Tor network.

Any ideas how to start tor browser and make it connect to existing Vidala instance?

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