Yes, Tor plugin in Icecat 63 not works properly. I reported it to a developer through his website.
There is one important thing that Tor plugin breaks. If you look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tor#Firefox <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tor#Firefox> there are lines you should configure in about:config page in Icecat network.proxy.socks_remote_dns truenetwork.dns.disablePrefetch truenetwork.dns.disableIPv6 true So plugin resets 'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' to 'false' every time it runs and every time you start Icecat having tor plugin is activated. And this is why ISP performs dns requests. Jan 7, 2019, 2:02 AM by m...@gnu.org: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 15:09:51 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote: > >> Now, when you start icecat, you may have to click on the tor plugin to >> activate it, but it normally autostarts for me. >> >> Also, at least for me, that doesn't configure my browser to access tor >> hidden services. But it does run all of your http traffic through the >> tor network, which is pretty cool. >> > > That's concerning to me: it seems to imply that DNS requests are _not_ > being proxied through Tor, which could leak very sensitive information > to your ISP and other parties. > > I use FoxyProxy Standard[0] (just by habit over the many years I've used > Tor with Firefox), so I hadn't tried the Addon distributed with > Icecat. FoxyProxy has an option to proxy DNS requests through Tor (and > does so by default IIRC). > > [0]: > https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard > <https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard> > > -- > Mike Gerwitz > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 > https://mikegerwitz.com <https://mikegerwitz.com> >
