On 10/01/2008, kazaam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With TorButton I see many problems: > * People use Tor and surfe the web. They then wanna visit a page they trust > and switch off TorButton. On this page they visit a link or so and forget > about not using tor anymore and are possibly redirected to somewhere they > don't want to be visible. > * Someone visits a webpage he thinks he can trust without tor but the domain > went down before and is now redirecting to some jerks. Something similar > happend with dl.am a few weeks ago.. > * Or some xss is going on and some hostile webserver gets their IP through > an iframe and kinds of that. > * Surfing two websites, one with tor and the other not at the same time is > nearly impossible with torbutton. I know I can start loading a page with > torbutton and then deactivate torbutton and start loading another page and > the first one still loads to the end with using tor but at the moment I wanna > click a link there I'm fucked...
Never used Foxy Proxy so I can't compare, but just for a slightly different perspective ... Points 1&4: I use multiple Firefox profiles - one for Tor, others for various different categories of sites (trusted, non-trusted, GMail, ...) which have different security settings. Means more memory/disk use but also clearly delineates usage. At least in my mind. Points 2&3: I run two instances on Privoxy - one for Tor, one for everything else. Again, more memory/disk, but worth the effort. I like the idea of knowing exactly how a browser instance is going to connect to a web server, without having to remember whether or not I've previously white listed it. Jo
