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Re: Why is TorButton and not FoxyProxy so much supported by the tor project?
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- Subject: Re: Why is TorButton and not FoxyProxy so much supported by the tor project?
- From: Jo <blipwart@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:49:22 +1000
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On 10/01/2008, kazaam <kazaam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> With TorButton I see many problems:
> * People use Tor and surfe the web. They then wanna visit a page they trust and switch off TorButton. On this page they visit a link or so and forget about not using tor anymore and are possibly redirected to somewhere they don't want to be visible.
> * Someone visits a webpage he thinks he can trust without tor but the domain went down before and is now redirecting to some jerks. Something similar happend with dl.am a few weeks ago..
> * Or some xss is going on and some hostile webserver gets their IP through an iframe and kinds of that.
> * Surfing two websites, one with tor and the other not at the same time is nearly impossible with torbutton. I know I can start loading a page with torbutton and then deactivate torbutton and start loading another page and the first one still loads to the end with using tor but at the moment I wanna click a link there I'm fucked...
Never used Foxy Proxy so I can't compare, but just for a slightly
different perspective ...
Points 1&4: I use multiple Firefox profiles - one for Tor, others for
various different categories of sites (trusted, non-trusted, GMail,
...) which have different security settings. Means more memory/disk
use but also clearly delineates usage. At least in my mind.
Points 2&3: I run two instances on Privoxy - one for Tor, one for
everything else. Again, more memory/disk, but worth the effort.
I like the idea of knowing exactly how a browser instance is going to
connect to a web server, without having to remember whether or not
I've previously white listed it.
Jo