Tor on Fedora From Chrome

Written By Sanjir Habib On May-16th, 2021

Here's how to use tor without the tor browser.

Birds eye view

Tor is available in Fedora default repos as tor therefore dnf install will do.

You need to enable and start it using systemctl after installation. No configuration change required.

The service creates a socks proxy server on port 9050. Point your browser towards that and you are inside the dark web.

Details

To install

sudo dnf install tor -y

That should do.

Enable and start tor

$ sudo systemctl enable tor
$ sudo systemctl start tor
$ ss -ln | grep 9050
tcp   LISTEN 0      4096                                                          127.0.0.1:905

The last command output indicates that you have tor running.

Next configure your Chrome or existing browser to use tor's socks port.
I use this script

if [ "$1" = "off" ]; then
	sudo systemctl stop tor
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode none
	echo 'Proxy turned off'
else
	sudo systemctl start tor
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host localhost
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 9050
	gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy mode manual
	echo 'Proxy turned on'
fi

Save the above code into a file. say /usr/local/bin/proxy.tor

And then whenever you want to enable tor run

$ proxy.tor

To disable and return to previous

$ proxy.tor off

Checking

Finally to confirm that you are indeed using tor, visit this site.
https://check.torproject.org/

You should see the Congratulation message as shown above.