Resend: fastestfox and too many connections
Original Message 2 Questions: - Does anyone know where the addon fastestfox compromises anonymity? When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this search be obeying TOR settings? - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: fastestfox and too many connections
Got in touch with the admin (email address posted here: http://smarterfox.com/help/). Hope I asked the right question. Here is the response. -Faraaz Original Message Subject: Re: fastestfox and too many connections Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:40:17 -0700 From: Yongqian Li To: Faraaz Damji lis...@frazzydee.ca Hi, Thank you for this email. Yes, FastestFox should obey Tor's settings. FastestFox is an Firefox addon, and so it uses the API provided by Firefox to connect. Thus, it will end up using whatever settings Firefox is configured to use. The Awesomebar search queries Google using Google's AJAX API. Again, this is using Firefox's API so it should obey whatever proxy settings Firefox has been configured to use. If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask me. Sincerely, Yongqian Li On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Faraaz Damji lis...@frazzydee.ca wrote: This message was posted on Tor's or-talk mailing list. I think you are probably best positioned to answer. As you may know, Tor is an anonymity network. I believe M's question basically boils down to, does fastestfox obey proxy settings entirely? This includes DNS resolves and auto-searches with the Awesomebar, which should be done over the proxy (I believe torbutton sets proxies for HTTP, SSL, and SOCKS v5). Thanks. If you want to reply directly: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ Otherwise if you reply to this message I will forward it to the list for you. -Faraaz Original Message Subject: fastestfox and too many connections Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:36:40 +0500 From: M moeedsa...@gmail.com Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net To: or-talk@freehaven.net 2 Questions: - Does anyone know where the addon fastestfox compromises anonymity? When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this search be obeying TOR settings? - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: fastestfox and too many connections
On 4/2/2010 1:59 PM, Faraaz Damji wrote: Got in touch with the admin (email address posted here: http://smarterfox.com/help/). Hope I asked the right question. Here is the response. -Faraaz Greatly appreciated Faraaz! Original Message Subject: Re: fastestfox and too many connections Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:40:17 -0700 From: Yongqian Li To: Faraaz Damji lis...@frazzydee.ca Hi, Thank you for this email. Yes, FastestFox should obey Tor's settings. FastestFox is an Firefox addon, and so it uses the API provided by Firefox to connect. Thus, it will end up using whatever settings Firefox is configured to use. The Awesomebar search queries Google using Google's AJAX API. Again, this is using Firefox's API so it should obey whatever proxy settings Firefox has been configured to use. If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask me. Sincerely, Yongqian Li On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Faraaz Damji lis...@frazzydee.ca wrote: This message was posted on Tor's or-talk mailing list. I think you are probably best positioned to answer. As you may know, Tor is an anonymity network. I believe M's question basically boils down to, does fastestfox obey proxy settings entirely? This includes DNS resolves and auto-searches with the Awesomebar, which should be done over the proxy (I believe torbutton sets proxies for HTTP, SSL, and SOCKS v5). Thanks. If you want to reply directly: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ Otherwise if you reply to this message I will forward it to the list for you. -Faraaz Original Message Subject: fastestfox and too many connections Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:36:40 +0500 From: M moeedsa...@gmail.com Reply-To: or-talk@freehaven.net To: or-talk@freehaven.net 2 Questions: - Does anyone know where the addon fastestfox compromises anonymity? When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this search be obeying TOR settings? - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Resend: fastestfox and too many connections
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:24:22PM +0500, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 0.6K bytes in 16 lines about: - Does anyone know where the addon fastestfox compromises anonymity? Since this is a resend, clearly no one else knows, or if they do, they aren't saying either way. - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! Were the circuits to destinations somewhat related to this 'fasterfox'? -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Resend: fastestfox and too many connections
On 4/2/2010 4:31 PM, and...@torproject.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 12:24:22PM +0500, moeedsa...@gmail.com wrote 0.6K bytes in 16 lines about: - Does anyone know where the addon fastestfox compromises anonymity? Since this is a resend, clearly no one else knows, or if they do, they aren't saying either way. Faraz, posted a reply from the fasterfox team. - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! Were the circuits to destinations somewhat related to this 'fasterfox'? No... *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: Resend: fastestfox and too many connections
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 05:04:53PM +0500, M wrote: - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that! Were the circuits to destinations somewhat related to this 'fasterfox'? No... See also https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=detailsid=1288 If somebody would verify the bug and figure out how to reproduce it reliably, that would be grand. Thanks, --Roger *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
