On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:21 -0500, "Aplin, Justin M" <jmap...@ufl.edu> 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? GD
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