I'm having problems connecting to GMail using the combination of Tor and Privoxy and a 56K dialup connection. Every so often I would also get an alert from my browser that GMail could not be found. The only change I did to the default Debian settings for Tor and Privoxy is the one mentioned in the Tor docs, that is, appending the following line to /etc/privoxy/config:
forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . I set my browser (presently, Mozilla kitchensink) to use "localhost:8118" as both HTTP and SSL proxy and for good measure set the socks4 host to localhost:9050 (could this be a problem?). Are Tor (as client) and Privoxy actually usable on a dialup connection? I have the impression that the combination chokes on connections that require relatively high bandwidth (as seems to be the case with GMail's javascript hacks). I otherwise have no problems connecting to non-heavily javascripted text-oriented sites like debian.org and gnu.org Also, in my apt-cache search I see a package for anon-proxy, and I'm wondering if I could get better performance from the program.
