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<h2>Tor Projects Overview</h2>
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<p>The Tor Project ecosystem involves a wide array of projects, some run
by core Tor developers and some run by volunteers. This page tries to
organize and summarize them, both to help new volunteer developers get
bootstrapped, and to help make sure people don't accidentally duplicate
efforts.</p>
<p>Under construction! Please bear with us as we clean up the list.</p>
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Controllers">Tor Controllers</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<page vidalia/index>">Vidalia</a> is our recommended
cross-platform Tor controller GUI, maintained by Matt Edman. It's included
in most bundles.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.anonymityanywhere.com/tork/">TorK</a> is a
controller written by Robert Hogan for the KDE environment (Linux). It
has a few extra features over Vidalia (such as in path selection),
but it's a lot rougher around the edges.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.atagar.com/arm/">arm</a> is a curses-based
(command-line, non-GUI) controller designed especially to summarize
relay operation.</li>
<li><a href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/blossom/trunk/">Blossom</a>
is an obsolete and unmaintained controller based on Geoff Goodell's
thesis at Harvard. Its goal was to make it more convenient to access
resources from the network location of your choice.</li>
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<h3><a class="anchor" href="#Applications">Accompanying applications</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="<page torbutton/index>">TorButton</a> is a Firefox extension
that helps keep you safe when you browse with Tor. It originally just
toggled your proxy settings on and off, but now it takes care of <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/">a wide array</a>
of application-level privacy risks.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a>
is a caching http proxy that handles pipelining and http/1.1. We
ship it with Firefox and Torbutton mainly because Firefox still <a