<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I have just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 from 10.04. 11.04 uses Firefox 6.02.<br>
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I followed these instructions
(https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en) and so added the Tor
repository to my /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get'd tor and
tor-geoipdb.<br>
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I have three questions about the changes I have noticed from 10.04.<br>
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a) It appears that Polipo is no longer required. My Firefox proxy
settings show SOCKS 5 at 127.0.0.1 but the HTTP and SSL boxes are
empty. Presumably this is correct as Tor is a SOCKS proxy so all HTTP
goes via it. Can I confirm that all DNS now can go directly to Tor
rather than requiring Polipo as the HTTP intermediary as was previously
the case.<br>
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I appreciate that when you turn Torbutton "on" then
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns becomes "true" which I assume means that
DNS indeed does go through Tor (rather than to my ISP).<br>
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I see that network.dns.disablePrefetch;true also becomes "true" and presumably this also assists in maintaining the remote DNS.<br>
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b) I also assume that Vidalia is now an "optional extra" rather than
required. It seems as if Torbutton has replaced it. Is this correct?<br>
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c) I note that the torrc file has moved from /home/myname/.vidalia/torrc to /etc/tor/torrc. Why?<br>
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Also:<br>
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When downloading Torbutton from (https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/)
the Mozilla screen said "author not verified". Why is this?<br>
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Thanks! Much appreciated!<br>
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