Re: Firefox extension: TorButton

[Jürgen Schinker <ba1020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, March 7, 2006 20:43, Scott Squires wrote:
> I have written/adapated a firefox extension that provides a 1-click way
> for users to enable or disable tor.  It adds a panel to the statusbar that
> says "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red).  The user may
> click on the panel to toggle the status.  If the user (or some other
> extension) changes the proxy settings, the change is automatically
> reflected in the statusbar.
>
> The extension also includes a button which the user can add to the
> toolbar.  It apparently is considered bad design for a firefox extension
> to automatically add a button to a user's toolbar, so I added the
> statusbar panel.  It might not be as natural to click the statusbar, but
> it is easier to see, and it has a tooltip to make it more clear.
>
> I have tested it with Firefox 1.5, and I hope it also works with older
> versions but I don't have any to test it with.  Firefox extensions can be
> installed by windows software installers by adding a registry key, so this
> could be distributed in the Tor/Privoxy combo installer.  See this page
> for details:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Adding_Extensions_using_the_Windows_
> Registry
>
>
> If you would like to try it out, TorButton 1.0 can be downloaded from
> http://zargon.hobbesnet.org/~squires/torbutton-1.0.xpi
> (BTW, XPIs are simply zips of the extension soucecode.)
>
>
> If Firefox doesn't ask you if you if you want to install it, choose "open
> file" from the file menu and open it that way, it should then prompt you
> whether you want to install it.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
cool your extension ilike it

but you have to leave my settings

no proxy for ....

untouched.