On 05/31/2015 08:55 PM, Paul A. Crable wrote: > Perhaps someone could help me here. On version 4.5.1 of the Tor (Firefox) > browser, the search field, to the right of the place to enter the URL, now > has a symbol on it that is proprietary to disconnect.me. I have also > found that while working on the WWW, from time to time a screen comes up > from direct.me asking me to enter search terms and to select the search > engine to use. > > It appears that disconnect.me has hijacked the search field in Foxfile, > and also found a way to interpose it's own search screen when URL's cannot > be found. I have done nothing to make this happen, and unfortunately > don't know what I can do to make it go away. > > Can anyone explain why this is happening? > > Until now the default search engine for Tor was Start Page, but that's > gone. Is Tor no longer using Start Page as the default search engine? > > I expect this kind of thing with a standard browser, but I thought Tor and > Foxfile had pretty well locked things down to prevent this kind of thing > happening. > > Any thoughts? > > Paul >
At first, I was just going to say that disconnect.me is the default search option in Tor Browser 4.5.1. But then I see on the blog:[0] | Last comment for the disconnect search add-on on on mozillas | add-on pages does not sound good. | | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/disconnect-search/reviews/678756/ | | >This plugin should enhance security, but in fact is doing | quite opposite. | Disconnect-search is regularly uploading plugin settings and | usage data, along with unique user ID, browser Agent string | and IP address not only to the developers website, but to | third parties as well (amazon servers of unknown account and | adobe stats servers). | | That is confirmed in the discussion about a different bug: | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1166692#c1 Some clarification would be good. [0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-451-released -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
