Re: Firefox 3 Portable and Tor

[Curious Kid <letsshareinformation@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you ever find a solution to your problem? I was afraid that my message was sent to your spam folder.



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> From: Edward Langenback <apostle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:20:26 PM
> Subject: Firefox 3 Portable and Tor
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> I've been having the worst time trying to get the Portable Apps version
> of Firefox to successfully connect via Tor.
> 
> Setting IE to use 127.0.0.1:8118 for all but local connections works and
> checking IP address at showmyip.com and similar confirms it.
> 
> Using Torbutton with a regular, Non-Portable Firefox 2 also works.
> 
> In the portable Firefox 3.0.6, using the "test settings" button on the
> Torbutton preferences dialog always yields the result:
> 
> "Tor proxy test FAILED! Check your proxy and Privoxy settings.
> 
> Privoxy config file contains the line
> 
> forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 .
> 
> And works properly with IE6 and non-portable Firefox 2
> 
> Using Torbutton 1.2.0
> firefox 3.0.6 (Portable Apps Version)
> Tor v0.2.0.34 (r18423) ... the current "Vidalia Bundle" package.
> Windows XP Service Pack 2
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
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