Please read https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWTO/WebBrowsers and ask again if there are still questions.
whistler: > Although I occasionally run Tails when a live CD is required, and Tor > Browser Bundle when I run on a system with a proprietary OS, I > principally run on an open-source system, using a tor version locally > compiled from the source distribution. This allows me use lynx, > instead of Firefox, which I consider to be more secure. > > I had been under the impression, from perhaps a long time ago, that it > was necessary to run privoxy as well in order to prevent DNS leaks (or > for some other reason). > > My questions are: > > 1. Was that ever true? > > 2. Is that true now? > > 3. If privoxy is no longer needed to prevent DNS leaks, is this > because the exit node now handles the DNS lookup? > > 4. What was the bug-fix in Firefox 6 that removed the need for privoxy > with Firefox, and what is the status of this issue with regard to > lynx? > > > The documentation on the torproject website that I have been able to > find which mentions privoxy is: > > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en > > which follows: > > ****** > > I need an HTTP proxy. Where did Polipo go? > > In the past, Tor bundles included an HTTP proxy like Privoxy or > Polipo, solely to work around a bug in Firefox that was finally fixed in > Firefox 6. Now you don't need a separate HTTP proxy to use Tor, and > in fact leaving it out makes you safer because Torbutton has better > control over Firefox's interaction with websites. > > If you are trying to use some external application with Tor, step > zero should be to reread the set of warnings for ways you can screw up. > Step one should be to try to use a Socks proxy rather than an http > proxy -- Tor runs a Socks proxy on port 9050 on Windows, or see above for > OSX and Linux. > > If that fails, feel free to install privoxy or polipo. You can use > our old polipo config file if you like. However, please realize that this > approach is not recommended for novice users. > > ***** > > Thanks, > > Whistler > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
