- When you went to the website and downloaded the Tor Browser, an icon was created wherever you designated the destination of the download to be. Presumably it was your desktop, but it could be anywhere on your computer.
- When you clicked on the onion, the Tor Browser program was installed into a folder called "Tor Browser" You select where you want that folder during installation; it defaults to where the download is, i.e., the desktop in your case.
- Inside that Tor Browser folder are two more icons. The file labeled Browser contains all the program files for the browser to work. The "Start Tor Browser" icon is what you click to start up the browser.
If at some point you decide you do not want Tor on your computer anymore, just delete the "Tor Browser" folder with the two icons inside it. It will be totally gone then. There is nothing else to uninstall.
A short time after clicking on the shortcut, the Tor browser should connect automatically to the Tor Network. It will then bring up the home page shown below:
Aside from it's anonymity features, the Tor browser acts exactly like a cleaned up version of Mozilla's FireFox. You may enter a URL (web site address) up at the top exactly the same way as you do in any other browser. You may also enter keywords to do a Google search. Google is fine, but it is not secure. That may not matter to you, but it does matter to Tor and most of the people who use this browser. Thus Tor supplies a search box along with a link to something called Disconnect me. Using that search engine disables the tracking information used by Google and others. Again, this may not matter to you, but it is a significant part of the Tor Network experience. You can try searching both ways just to say you can do it.
I want to reiterate that nothing has changed as far as browser functionality goes, aside from the added security settings that Tor makes transparent. Thus, when you come to Brainformation Forums, your login credentials are the same as they always have been. If you do not recall what they are, then you will have a problem logging in. The cookies that remember your name and password do not exist in the Tor Browser until after you have logged in at least one time. You must check the box to save those credentials in the Tor browser, which is exactly what you had to do with any other browser you used for the first time.
Changing your password without being logged in requires that you enter your user name (Icey) and then clicking on "I forgot my password" You will receive an e-mail with a computer generated password. Log in using that. Once you are in you can go to your account profile and change your password to anything you like from there.
I would recommend that you use some lipstick and write your name and password on the bottom portion of your monitor so that you don't run into this problem in the future.
Or you can write it down on paper and put it in some safe place for future reference.