[[!img lib/apps/tor-browser.png link="no" alt=""]]

[[!img lib/apps/tor-browser.png link="no" alt=""]]

Sending your connections to websites through the Tor network is not enough to totally protect you while browsing the web:

<h1 id="proxy">PThe proxy server is refusing connections</h1>

<h1 id="proxy">The proxy server is refusing connections</h1>

<h1 id="security-level">Security levelconfinement">Security confinement</h1>

<h1 id="confinement">Security confinement</h1>

<p>To prevent Tails from running out of memory and crashing, download
very big files to the <emi>Persistent/Tor Browser</em</i> folder.
All tThe files that you download outside of the Persistent Storage are
stored in memory (RAM), which is more limited.</p>

<p>To prevent Tails from running out of memory and crashing, download
very big files to the <i>Persistent</i> folder.
The files that you download outside of the Persistent Storage are
stored in memory (RAM), which is more limited.</p>

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<h1 id="https-everywhere">HTTPS encrypSecure connections with HTTPS Everywhere</h1>

<h1 id="https-everywhere">Secure connections with HTTPS</h1>

[[!img doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/riseup.png link=noclass="screenshot" alt=""]]

[[!img doc/anonymous_internet/Tor_Browser/riseup.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]

To learn more about HTTPS Everywhere, you canand how *Tor Browser* protects you, see:

To learn more about HTTPS and how *Tor Browser* protects you, see:

To change the security level, click onSelect the [[!img security-level.png
link="no" class="symbolic" link="no"]] icon on the right of the address bar
and choose
<span class="guilabel">Advanced Security Settings&hellip;</span>.
.

Select the [[!img security-level.png link="no" class="symbolic"]] icon on the right of the address bar.

[[!img security-levels.png link="noclass="screenshot" alt=""]]

[[!img security-levels.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]

[[!img circuit-view.png link=noclass="screenshot" alt=""]]

[[!img circuit-view.png class="screenshot" alt=""]]

Click on the padlockSelect the [[!img tor-circuit.png alt="Tor Circuit" class="symbolic"
link="no"]] button in the address bar to show the relays in the Tor circuit that is used to connect to the website in the current tab, its 3 relays, their countries, and IP addresses.

Select the [[!img tor-circuit.png alt="Tor Circuit" class="symbolic"
link="no"]] button in the address bar to show the relays in the Tor circuit
that is used to connect to the website in the current tab.

<h1 id="new-identity"><span class="guilabel"b>New Identity</spanb> feature</h1>

<h1 id="new-identity"><b>New Identity</b> feature</h1>

To switch to a new identity, choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu"> [[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="" Open Application Menu"
class="symbolic" link="no"]]</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">&nbsp;▸ **New Iidentity</span></span>**.

To switch to a new identity, choose [[!img lib/open-menu.png alt="Open Application Menu"
class="symbolic" link="no"]]&nbsp;▸ **New identity**.

Closes all open tabs.

Closes all open tabs.

Clears the session state including cache, history, and cookies.

Clears the session state including cache, history, and cookies.

Closes all existing web connections and creates new Tor circuits.

Closes all existing web connections and creates new Tor circuits.

<p>This feature is not enough to strongly [[separate contextual identities|about/warnings/identity#contextual]]
as the Tor circuits used outside of
<i>Tor Browser</i> are not changed.</p>

<p>This feature is not enough to strongly [[separate contextual identities|about/warnings/identity#contextual]]
as the Tor circuits used outside of
<i>Tor Browser</i> are not changed.</p>

Protect from more JavaScript attacks. For example, cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.