How to use Tor web browser?

[screechingPupil214]

They say Tor is safe to use, but does it prevent detection as soon as your open Tor or do you have to configure anything?

[Uncle]

dont look at child pornography

[adaviel]

The browser bundle is supposed to be pre-configured to work "safely" - not leaking information about your real ip address or location.
According to the documentation, if you run things like BitTorrent at the same time, or maybe Flash or other programs that do not use the Tor proxy, you can out yourself.
There is a way to configure other programs like ftp to use the proxy, but that takes a bit of effort (OK, following instructions and testing it).

Nevertheless, if you are using it for sharing child pornography, the FBI and various random hackers will still try and find you and may well succeed.

[Jose Sanchez]

Tor is not safe, most (if not all) exit nodes are monitored by the FBI and such.

[Julian]

Tor offers a lot of anonymity but it's critical that you understand how Tor anonymity works. Your traffic is routed through three random hops that strip your info and the weak link in the equation has always been from the last relay to your target site. If you use https everywhere (a great extension from EFF) then you pretty much have all the anonymity you can ask for. Now for some landmines....
You need to be careful about leaving breadcrumb trails. The busting of the Silk Road founder was a failure of the human and not the technology. It's probably best to never do any kind of authentication if you can, or use user names that are similar on Tor and non Tor networks. Also be wary of the browser bundle from Tor. This bundle is the subject of special interest by FBI and they are constantly trying to exploit whatever version of Firefox that it uses and was recently successful.
If you want to get on Tor you can always do it the easy way by using a router that has Tor embedded in it. I recommend PAPARouter (http://paparouter.com) because it's inexpensive (less than $100.00), allows you to anonymize several devices at once and best of all it has non U.S. exit nodes hard coded into it . Given all the uproar that other countries are having with U.S. spying, making your last Tor relay outside of the U.S. to your target site is great security and using https would be massive protection.

Two VERY good links below...
TOR AND HTTPS PAGE
https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https

FBI exploit using Firefox Bundle
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/...tor-users/