gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » torbutton http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Torbutton Firefox Extensionhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/06/torbutton-firefox-extension/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/06/torbutton-firefox-extension/#comments Sat, 06 May 2006 14:23:01 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/05/06/torbutton-firefox-extension/ This is a helpful extension. You might know Tor which helps you anonymize your internet traffic or Torpark which is basically Firefox with an always active Tor. Most people don´t need to be anonymous all the time when they are connected to the internet. Some paranoids will disagree here but I think there is no need for anonymity if you want to check on the latest football scores or a weather report.

If you agree with me on this Torbutton might be the right firefox extension for you. You can start and stop the Tor service with the click of a button. You need to install Tor as well, download link is provided from the page above and privoxy. If you like it use it and make sure you check if its working by visiting a website that shows your IP.

You will only face troubles if you are forced to use a manual proxy configuration because your provider, company or institute demands this. Torbutton will change between manual proxy configuration (on) and direct connection to the internet (off). So, this extension is not working in this case. For everyone else it should be fine to use.

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