On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:52:25 +0000 "Geoff Down" <geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21 -0500, "Aplin, Justin M" <jmaplin@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > On 2/3/2011 8:28 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > > > I am using Torbutton. It is supposed to Torrify Firefox - yes? > > > > In a roundabout way, yes. Torbutton forwards Firefox traffic to Polipo, > > which in turn sends the traffic to the SOCKS port of Tor. Disabling > > Torbutton and entering the Tor SOCKS information into Firefox's network > > configuration would skip the Polipo part, and eliminate any problems you > > might be having with some hidden Polipo cache. > I understood that Firefox couldn't be trusted to not leak DNS requests, > hence the need for an HTTP proxy like Polipo. I'm running an old > version of Firefox though - are the newer ones fixed in this regard? Only if the configuration option network.proxy.socks_remote_dns (only accessible in about:config) is set to true. Torbutton will ensure that this option is set properly. Robert Ransom
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