![]() But the TOR engine has to be installed on Windows and activated outside of those search engines for it to work.It’s still difficult to wrap your head around the fact that Microsoft is ditching all the legacy that is IE and launching a new browser built from the ground up. There are also some search engines which offer TOR to obfuscate web searches such as SearX, MetaGer(dot)org, and Onion. I use many versions /profiles of Firefox (ESR/Beta/Nightly) in portable mode, as well as many portable Chrome (Beta/Dev/Canary) or Chromium-based browsers such as "unGoogled" Chromium, Vivaldi, Slimjet, and Opera to do so. ![]() Rather than subscribe to a VPN, I hop from browser to browser every few days. And M$'s Bing defaults as the search engine for any other browser, unless the user is willing to dig through settings on Windows and browsers, and/or installs a search engine as an extension to change it. ![]() Microsoft Edge on Win 10/11 behaves like Chrome on Android, it can't be deleted, only deprecated. ![]() But with Hyper V, GApps (Android), QEMU, or Virtual Box/Player, a Windows user can experiment with and learn how to use various distros in a virtualized state. The primary drawback to using smartphones and Linux/Unix distros is that they aren't amenable to portable software, unlike Windows OSes, which is why I always go back to primarily using Windows after awhile. Been using Firefox, since it was called Firebird, so its still my browser of choice! As it is for TOR. I tend to avoid using apps whenever possible, b/c they lock me into viewing their content w/o my having any input or control. Google Chrome is top dog mainly b/c it ships with Android OSes, and not many phone users opt for installing other web browsers from the Play Store, like the Chromium-based Bromite (fDroid) Yandex, Opera, or less install extensions that improve and enhance browsing functionality, and security/privacy. ![]()
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