Tor functionality

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Hi,
I was thinking that working Tor (https://www.torproject.org) into this plugin 
would round it out very nicely.
-Ephraim

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ephraim....@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 5:59

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Actually, if you use privoxy and tor together (which is how it comes for 
Windows, I 
think?) you can use switchy to turn on/off tor quite nicely -- just set up a 
proxy 
for localhost:8118 (or whatever port privoxy runs at on your machine). I 
*think*, 
judging by the time taken to do them, that DNS lookups are also done through 
privoxy/tor as well, which is good.

If you wanted a more cleverer, more "complete" tor solution, like torbutton 
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2275), that does stuff like 
separating your browser history from your tor session's browsing history, 
amongst 
other things, then I would suggest that switchy is perhaps not the place to add 
it.

Original comment by e...@waxworlds.org on 29 Mar 2010 at 5:03

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Au contraire, I think that if we want separated browsing histories for 
different 
proxies, switchy is just the right extension for it. Wheather if it is related 
to 
privoxy/Tor or any other proxy would be completely unrelated.

Original comment by pplupo on 29 Mar 2010 at 6:23

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Hmm. I'm not against it, I just can't really think of any other scenarios where 
this 
would be useful though, other than for tor or some other anonymising network. 
It's 
not really a feature I'd *expect* to find in a proxy switching extension.

Also, the torbutton firefox extension does quite a lot more than just keep 
browsing 
histories separate. It interferes with javascript, css, browser caching, meta 
refresh 
tags, form autocompletion, cookies, flash (and other 3rd party plugin objects) 
and 
probably other stuff. In fact, the authors of torbutton specifically recommend 
against using a proxy switcher with tor as something that is so insecure that 
it is a 
"waste of time" (https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/faq.html.en#oldtorbutton).

So, to contradict my previous post, it doesn't look like you can successfully 
use tor 
with switchy. You really need a full "torbutton" extension for chromium.

Original comment by e...@waxworlds.org on 30 Mar 2010 at 6:49

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Ok, I think you may be right... but also those things can also be disabled on 
options 
menu. ;-)

Original comment by pplupo on 30 Mar 2010 at 7:49

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Somebody beat me to a detailed instruction of how to use ProxySwitchy with Tor 
:)
Just featured on Lifehacker.
http://lifehacker.com/5614732/create-a-tor-button-in-chrome-for-on+demand-anonym
ous-browsing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+lifehacker
/full+(Lifehacker)

Original comment by ephraim....@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 1:17

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That's my case! I've set a "TOR" profile to point on localhost:8118 but the 
damnt thing just doesnt work when i switch on it! I'm devastated. Just thought 
that would be good "TOR button" substitute and then SUDDENLY! Fire Fox foreva 
then?

Original comment by Akim.Dub...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2010 at 12:26

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I am not 100% sure, but switchy + chrome incognito mode come pretty near the 
torbutton behavior. See also my comment from Issue 219: 
http://code.google.com/p/switchy/issues/detail?id=217#c1

Original comment by fschm...@gmail.com on 26 Jun 2011 at 2:41

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Guys, setting up Tor with Chrome (using or not Switchy) in incognito is not the 
same as Tor button on Firefox. Unfortunately Chrome's API for extensions does 
not provide the methods that are necessary for an anonymous surfing. Further 
more, incognito only prevents the browser from storing information regarding 
the sites on your computer, it does not prevent information from being sent to 
the servers.

Original comment by pplupo on 26 Jun 2011 at 2:55