On Thursday 11 October 2007, Robert Hogan wrote: > On Wednesday 10 October 2007 13:20:31 Pat Double wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > > You should use RefControl < > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953 > to spoof > > > > referrers headers, not Polipo, as RefControl does HTTPS and HTTP. > > > > > > Yep. In all cases, doing things in the browser is better than doing > > > them in the proxy. > > > > > > However, I understand that Pat is trying to be at least somewhat > > > browser-agnostic. > > > > I'm not sure my goal of providing more than Firefox as a web browser is a > > good idea. It is known that Tor is not enough to make you anonymous, > > hence all these extensions that are installed in Firefox. The problem is > > that not all of the same features are available on Konqueror or links. I > > can't remove Konqueror since it also does file management, but I think > > links I should remove. And the desktop link to Konq may need to be > > removed as well. > > Keeping track of all the things you should turn off or get a proxy to tweak > makes my feeble head hurt. > > Turn off: > Plugins, Java, Javascript, ads > > Tweak: > Referrers > > Um, what else? I'm confused. We need a list. No kidding :) I did find Konqueror has the features that are needed (I think, we need a list.) I should do more research before sending email, but TorK indeed disables the necessary things and Konqueror supports AdBlock filters so I added the same filter for FireFox AdBlock Plus to Konqueror. I kept links as anonym made a good point the only users running links most likely know what they are doing. -- Pat Double, pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "Ye must be born again." - John 3:7
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