On Wed, Feb 24, 2016, at 05:03 PM, Nathaniel Suchy wrote: > If you stop Tor (Orbot) and then start it again the issue should be > fixed. > On a side note why isn't Tor built into Orfox on Android?
We chose not to do this, because you can use Orbot standalone for many other apps. You don't want every app on your phone that wants to use Tor to have to run their own instance, as it would eat up battery and network. We are seeing more and more apps, like Facebook, DuckDuckGo, OpenKeychain, Conversations, ChatSecure, etc support proxying through Tor with Orbot. In addition, Android provides a very good inter-app communication/coordination mechanism through intents and remote services, that isn't really possible in a cross-platform way on desktops. On iPhone there > is an open source project OnionBrowser where the Tor Binary is built in. > I am curious why the Orbot/Orfox team hasn't done the same. Onion Browser has to build in Tor because iOS doesn't allow for background services generally. +n -- 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
