Re: [tor-talk] No BetterPrivacy for Tor?

[Matthew]

 I noticed that BP was taking a few seconds longer to exit than normal 
each time I closed Firefox so I am glad someone has mentioned this issue 
(assuming they were having the same problem).


When you say, "out of habit I went to the BetterPrivacy add-on page...", 
did you mean the AMO site, or developer's home page,  http://netticat.ath.cx




If you go to the developer's home page 
(http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm) you can download 
1.66.  You need to allow the page in NoScript or the ability to download 
does not appear


However, going to 
(http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/addons/6623/betterprivacy-1.66-fx+sm.xpi) 
results in a "not found" error.


In fact it would appear this is a problem with Mozilla: 
http://netticat.ath.cx/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=1727#p1727 and nothing to do 
with the developer.


Also, a user posted question like yours on developer's forum today - but 
no response yet:

http://netticat.ath.cx/forum/viewtopic.php?id=485




The developer, Netticat, writes in this thread:

This BetterPrivacy bug is triggered ...
- either by Firefox add-ons which prevent cookie deletion for legal reasons 
(e.g. Beef Taco)

- or by badly coded web-pages (still opened while quitting the browser).

To fix the issue immediately please choose from the following options:
- install the new BetterPrivacy version 1.66 which can be found here
- keep the previous BetterPrivacy version 1.65, but choose another LSO 
deletion option than on FireFox exit

- temporarily disable BetterPrivacy 1.65  (until automatically updated)
- disable other possibly conflicting add-ons (yet known: Beef Taco), on FF 
exit make sure that most web-page tabs are closed


So if you do not want to use 1.66 then you can modify the options in 1.65 
to "delete Flash cookies on application start" for example rather than on 
Firefox exit.




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Re: [tor-talk] No BetterPrivacy for Tor?

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 8/2/2011 6:54 AM, M Robinson wrote:

Hello,

 I updated Tor and was adding few addons, out of habit I went to
the BetterPrivacy add-on page and got this message


This add-on has been removed by its author

so tried again


We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for.

The page or file you requested wasn't found on our site. It's possible that you 
clicked a link that's out of date, or typed in the address incorrectly.

So, is this a Tor thing or is Mozilla selectively blocking add-ons by
country of origin? If I don't use Tor this add-on is available.

When you say, "out of habit I went to the BetterPrivacy add-on page...", 
did you mean the AMO site, or developer's home page,  http://netticat.ath.cx


Well, as I read your post I saw there was an update for BetterPrivacy 
avail.  Curious, I looked at the AMO site - I didn't get any msg nor 
found the Better Privacy addon.  So, found these couple of non 
definitive blurbs on developer's forum:
For safety and update-reliability it is always recommended to install 
any software directly from the developer sites. Especially on AMO this 
is no longer granted since the site started to modify the original 
add-on compatibility information based on automatic scans - though 
they admitted that those scans might be unreliable when it comes to 
GUI 
. 
Therefore I'm even considering to completely remove my add-ons from 
there.
Also, a user posted question like yours on developer's forum today - but 
no response yet:

http://netticat.ath.cx/forum/viewtopic.php?id=485



  Today 20:33:01
  

  * Guest

Thank you for BP 1.66, which I downloaded directly from 'your' site, 
after experiencing the freezing issues with 1.65.  (I also have TACO 
installed.)
I am concerned, however, that the Mozilla Add On site has the 
following note for this add-on:

"This add-on has been removed by its author."
Should I be uninstalling it?
Please advise.
Thank you.




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[tor-talk] No BetterPrivacy for Tor?

[M Robinson]

Hello,

I updated Tor and was adding few addons, out of habit I went to
the BetterPrivacy add-on page and got this message

> This add-on has been removed by its author

so tried again

> We're sorry, but we can't find what you're looking for.
> 
> The page or file you requested wasn't found on our site. It's possible that 
> you clicked a link that's out of date, or typed in the address incorrectly. 

So, is this a Tor thing or is Mozilla selectively blocking add-ons by
country of origin? If I don't use Tor this add-on is available.

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