<[email protected]> writes: > Yes, Tor plugin in Icecat 63 not works properly. I reported it to a developer > through his website.
What developer? Can you link me to the bug report? > > There is one important thing that Tor plugin breaks. If you look at > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tor#Firefox there are lines you should configure > in > about:config page in Icecat > network.proxy.socks_remote_dns true > network.dns.disablePrefetch true > network.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 [email protected]: > > 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 > > -- > Mike Gerwitz > Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer > GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 > https://mikegerwitz.com > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
