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Every browser has a unique fingerprint. The advantage of tor browser is EVERY user is matching the same fingerprint so you cannot tell who it is. If you run Firefox with a unique set of plugins, it will be unique to fingerprinting sites, but that is BAD. The fingerprint will identify you as you, rather than 1/all tor browser users on your OS.
They have different fingerprints PER COMPUTER without any plugins other than default of No Script. I tested this, it is not the same hash for every computer. It varies per computer and was persistent across sessions.
Are you testing windows v linux? Tor browser started reporting itself as Linux on Linux.