[aklug] Re: Tor + Firefox

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On 02/13/2012 04:45 PM, Jim MacDonald wrote:
> I have it loaded but rarely use it. It's downloaded as a package
> together… and how you implement it is obviously platform dependent.
> in OSX you install the bundle and once it installs starting the
> Onion Router stats FF.
>
> Why do you ask?
>

After some of the crazy things I have seen going on in government
lately (ours and around the world) I have finally decided to get
serious about privacy in browsing. As far as obscuring location, I
knew Tor was the way to go, but I wasn't sure how I want to implement
it and integrate it with Firefox, and most of the online material is
out of date.

However, I was able to get it figured out, for the most part. I got
Tor installed and running on my system, and then pointed Firefox to
use localhost as a SOCKSv5 proxy. And I use FoxyProxy to tweak some of
the settings related to that.

I was discouraged that, for some reason that is still unclear to me, I
have not been able to get google search to work correctly from Firefox
while browsing with Tor. It refuses to return search results. So I
found another search engine called Ixquick that seems to work just
fine regardless.

I could go on about all the other ways I locked down my browsing
privacy (HTTPS enforcement, cookie blocking, et cetera) and the
related struggles, but doubtlessly I'm boring everyone already.

- --
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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Received on Mon Feb 13 19:52:44 2012