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[or-cvs] we need our own pre-configured switchproxy, or maybe also



Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/website/en
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/website/en

Modified Files:
	volunteer.wml 
Log Message:
we need our own pre-configured switchproxy, or maybe also
a better plugin than that.


Index: volunteer.wml
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/website/en/volunteer.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.16
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -p -d -r1.16 -r1.17
--- volunteer.wml	16 Feb 2006 21:55:47 -0000	1.16
+++ volunteer.wml	26 Feb 2006 09:29:49 -0000	1.17
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ you have RPM fu, please help out.</li>
 <a id="Usability"></a>
 <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Usability">Usability and Interface</a></h2>
 <ol>
+<li><a
+href="http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-switchproxy.html";>SwitchProxy</a>
+is more complex than we need. It has confusing options like "anonymous"
+proxies that aren't really anonymous. Plus, the user needs to manually
+type in things like "localhost" and "8118". Should we offer our own
+adapted plugin that has suitable defaults for Tor pre-assigned?
+Also, I hear SwitchProxy is not as compatible with Firefox 1.5 -- are
+other plugins like ProxyButton more flexible across versions?</li>
 <li>We need a way to intercept DNS requests so they don't "leak" while
 we're trying to be anonymous. (This happens because the application does
 the DNS resolve before going to the SOCKS proxy.) One option is to use