Any torbutton/privoxy experts here?

[Nils Kassube]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> Nils Kassube said the following at 11/09/2007 03:12 PM :
> > D. R. Evans wrote:
> >> For about a year, torbutton worked perfectly on my 64-bit dapper
> >> system.
> >>
> >> But recently, every attempt to use it has brought up a privoxy
> >> screen that says that DNS resolution has failed.
> >>
> >> Anyone here have enough expertise to help try to figure out whether
> >> the problem is with FF, the torbutton extension, tor or privoxy?
> >
> > Just an idea: you could try another browser - if the problem
> > persists, it isn't Firefox.
>
> I have no idea how to use tor/privoxy in another browser. torbutton is
> supposed to do everything automatically, but of course it only works in
> FF.

Ooops - my bad. I didn't really know what torbutton is. I thought it was 
another proxy between your browser and tor/privoxy. Anyway, at least for 
privoxy I know that it works as a proxy server listening on a specific 
port (i think it is 1080, or maybe 8000) on your localhost. I would 
expect tor to work the same. To setup another browser to use privoxy you 
would have to find out the port from the documentation. Then use the 
settings for that browser where you can find something named "internet 
connection". Usually there are several options like "direct connection to 
internet" and "manual proxy settings". Select the latter and set it to 
host = localhost or http://localhost. Usually there is a seperate input 
area for the port. Set it to the port mentioned in the docs for privoxy 
or tor. If your browser has no seperate input area use 
http://localhost:1080 for the host (use the correct port instead of 
1080).


Nils