Tor control switch in the extensions area of settings

[tildelowengrimm]

This poor soul accidentally opened a private window with Tor when they only meant to open a regular private window, and were hounded by grumpy sysadmins for their error. https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/bxncmt/so_long_guys_back_to_firefox_im_afraid/

We could let people avoid this mistake by adding a toggle in the extensions area of settings to disable Tor. Not a security feature, just a convenience feature if you know that you definitely never want Brave to use Tor.

[brianddk]

@tomlowenthal , Thank you, yes I am that unfortunate soul. I'm on my sysadmin's "watch list" and I had to purge Brave from my network instances until I can be assured they won't "beacon" again in the future.

More than willing to compile a DLL, or hack a flag or registry setting to disable Tor. Other users might want something a bit more accessible.

[BrendanEich]

I have DMs from folks who want this. If easy, we should knock it out, for adoption upside. Thanks.

[riastradh-brave]

Entails:

• settings switch, for one-off users
• admin policy, for IT departments to issue if they want
• removing / greying out menu items -- note this requires browser restart to take effect
• prevent downloading the tor component
• maybe delete the component if the switch is flipped

[eddiedunn]

It would be great to see some form of this implemented.