Re: how much does opera leak?

[Phil <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did using Privoxy plug the dns leak?

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, phobos@xxxxxxxxxx <phobos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: phobos@xxxxxxxxxx <phobos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: how much does opera leak?
> To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:24 PM
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:02:47PM +0200, eugen@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote 0.4K bytes in 12 lines about:
> : How much does Opera leak in comparison with a tightly
> configured
> : Firefox?
> 
> I haven't tested the latest 9.5x releases of Opera, but
> previously
> Opera leaked dns.  There also was no easy way to disable
> plugins.  I had
> to reconfigure the browser to enable or disable plugins. 
> There's no
> handy plugin for opera like torbutton.
> 
> I know OperaTor exists, but as both Opera and OperaTor are
> closed source, I didn't bother
> to evaluate it in depth.  It seemed to be just Opera
> pointed at Tor.  
> 
> -- 
> Andrew