diff --git a/app/browser/tabs.js b/app/browser/tabs.js
index d24b3e22425..6469cb677de 100644
--- a/app/browser/tabs.js
+++ b/app/browser/tabs.js
@@ -908,6 +908,11 @@ const api = {
         if (isSessionPartition(createProperties.partition)) {
           createProperties.parent_partition = ''
         }
+        if (createProperties.isTor) {
+          createProperties.isolated_storage = true
+          createProperties.parent_partition = ''
+          createProperties.tor_proxy = 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'
+        }
       }
 
       // Tabs are allowed to be initially discarded (unloaded) if they are regular tabs
diff --git a/app/common/commonMenu.js b/app/common/commonMenu.js
index 9c4d90a1326..02adf67974c 100644
--- a/app/common/commonMenu.js
+++ b/app/common/commonMenu.js
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ module.exports.newTorIdentityMenuItem = () => {
     label: locale.translation('newTorIdentity'),
     click: function (item, focusedWindow) {
       // XXX new tor circuits
-      let torSession = electron.session.fromPartition('tor')
+      let torSession = electron.session.fromPartition('persist:tor')
       torSession.clearCache(() => { console.log('cleared tor cache') })
       torSession.clearStorageData({}, () => {
         console.log('cleared tor storage')
diff --git a/app/filtering.js b/app/filtering.js
index 02dd8c13090..5293f1a817c 100644
--- a/app/filtering.js
+++ b/app/filtering.js
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ function initTor (ses, partition) {
   let proxyconfig = {
     proxyRules: 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050,direct://'
   }
+  // darkdh to diracdeltas: this can be deleted because it is covered by "tor_proxy"
   ses.setProxy(proxyconfig, () => {
     // Make a request to check.torproject.org to ensure that proxying works
     console.log('checking for Tor proxy')
@@ -720,6 +721,11 @@ const initPartition = (partition) => {
   if (isSessionPartition(partition)) {
     options.parent_partition = ''
   }
+  if (partition === 'persist:tor') {
+    options.isolated_storage = true
+    options.parent_partition = ''
+    options.tor_proxy = 'socks5://127.0.0.1:9050'
+  }
 
   let ses = session.fromPartition(partition, options)
   fns.forEach((fn) => {