Then the button should read "change exit node" and not "new identity", no?
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 22:02, Michael Wolf <mikewol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 1/26/2014 5:57 AM, Lunar wrote: >> Katya Titov: >>> New Identity works from both TBB and Vidalia. The difference is that >>> from TBB the entire browser closes and restarts and you lose open tabs. >>> When choosing a new identity from Vidalia the browser remains open. >> >> I need to point this out one more time: In the case of the latter, >> the browser content stays the same. All the browser content. Including >> cookies, history, and many other things that are used to fingerprint a >> browser session. This means that from the websites point of view, >> nothing changes except the IP address. You keep the same identity there. > > 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. > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
