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I am having issues connecting to Tor via Ruby - Watir webdriver.

I use the Tor Browser Bundle. The problem is that when I try to connect via Watir (Selenium) I cannot seem to open Tor instead of regular Firefox.

Looking at similar issues I've tried the following:

require 'watir-webdriver'

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new

profile['network.proxy.socks'] = '127.0.0.1' #the proxy tor uses
profile['network.proxy.socks_port'] = 9150 #I cannot use 9050, 9150 works when I use Tor
profile['network.proxy.type'] = 1

browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile
browser.goto [an .onion website]

When I use the before-mentioned code I nonetheless still open the normal firefox browser, and cannot connect to onion sites.

Any thoughts? Is there another way in which I need to connect the Tor browser to my webdriver profile?

Roya
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First, open the Tor browser (it needs to be running already). Then, in your code, make sure to simply start with:

Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Binary.path='{location of start_tor_browser*}'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox

*In my case: /home/tor/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser

Nothing else is required - don't bother messing with profile

(hehe, credits to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24305345/cant-connect-to-tor-firefox-via-watir)

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Use normal Firefox, not the one shipped in TBB : it's a bit different one, and Selenium's troubles with it are well-known. The core of the problems is that it is a Long-Term support version WITH patches from a newer versions of FF, but it identivies it's version number as lower(older) one, and that's blows up alot of add-ons' minds. Use FoxyProxy in regular FF and you will be just fine =) Figured it iut some years ago myself after a night of trouble-googling

Alexey Vesnin
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