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Re: Confusion about TorButton, Noscript, etc.



On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:17:57AM +0200, Karsten N. wrote:
> Ringo Kamens schrieb:
> > I'm working on a presentation where I teach people how to install Tor. I
> > have always heard it is best practice to use NoScript and TorButton, but
> > TorButton automatically hooks "dangerous javascript". Is there any
> > reason to have noscript installed after that?
> 
> NoScript blocks other "dangerous content" like Java applets, flash,
> siverlight... too. And it discover cross site scripting. So I prefer
> NoScript and FoxyProxy.
> 
> FoxyProxy offers the possibility to configure some sites to be used
> with a preselected proxy, may be switch to "tor" for all http://*.onion*

In the faq <https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/faq.html>
they warn you about foxyproxy. 

What about other plugins like QuickJava? I think I don't need it 
anymore with Torbutton installed, but do they confuse each other? 


sigi