Hello. I encountered the same problem earlier. To disable upgrading Firefox while working via Tor, I installed the Torbutton plugin, then activated "Disable plugins during Tor usage" switch. Inspite of that flag isn't marked as important, I feel more secure when it's turned on.
2010/3/5, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > Hello. > > > Is this normal? Does anyone know about this or has had it happen to them? > > Firefox started installing version 3.0.18 (I was running 3.0.17), on my Mac > (10.5.2), while I was in Hidden Services waiting for Onion Forum to open. > It caught me by surprise and finished the install but then another window > popped open and showed me it was putting on Add-ons which I cancelled. > > I regularly check my FF preferences, so did immediately and nothing is > checked, especially automatically updating or adding add-ons without asking > first. > > Also, in Vidalia's Message Log window, it used to show the progress of > "getting enough information to build a circuit" but now, and in no time at > all (less then 3 seconds), the Control Panel says Tor is connected and the > message log never says anything, other than the initial starting up logs, > i.r. "this is experimental software", "opening SOCKS", etc. > > Generally, I always copy and paste my onion addresses and for that matter I > do it all the time when I surf at all. In this way, I look at the address > before hitting enter and lately have seen lots of addresses in the Onion > Forum with "redirects" in the address bar. > > Before I closed out, I went to Torproject to check my IP and it was > different so that made me feel a bit better. I used to do the IP check right > after connecting Tor but the address would be the same IP as my last session > and I was told doing something habitually makes an address/client/user > (mine/me), stand out. > > Thanks in advance. Hope what I gave is enough info. Next time I'll take a > snapshot of it all. > > > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
