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by Santosh83 3130 days ago
It is explicitly warned not to use the Tor Browser under Whonix because the browser starts its own instance of Tor while Whonix already funnels every network request through its gateway Tor and Tor over Tor is supposedly undefined behaviour. So you have to go the additional step of disabling Tor Browser from starting its bundled Tor...

Or under Whonix just use any normal browser like Firefox.

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That's not what I see on https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Browser

It explicitly says "There is no Tor over Tor scenario in the Whonix environment." when using their modified Tor Browser.

Thanks. I stand corrected. I didn't realise they supplied their own modified Tor Browser...
> any normal browser like Firefox.

This is very bad advice. Do not use Firefox. It is not as secure as Chrome.