Launch Tor Browser without Tor Network

Steps

  1. Goto the tor browser installed directory and run ./firefox -p to start firefox profile manager
  2. Create a new profile named unsafe
  3. Use ./firefox -P unsafe to launch tor browser with unsafe profile.
  4. Goto about:config and set the following options
    user_pref("extensions.torlauncher.start_tor", false);
    user_pref("network.dns.disabled", false);
    user_pref("network.proxy.type", 0);
    

References

  1. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40160
  2. https://forums.whonix.org/t/tor-browser-10-without-tor/10313/6