[or-cvs] r23064: {website} we really screwed our os x users, didn't we (website/trunk/en)

Roger Dingledine arma at torproject.org
Thu Aug 26 20:07:51 UTC 2010


Author: arma
Date: 2010-08-26 20:07:50 +0000 (Thu, 26 Aug 2010)
New Revision: 23064

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/faq.wml
Log:
we really screwed our os x users, didn't we


Modified: website/trunk/en/faq.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2010-08-26 19:16:46 UTC (rev 23063)
+++ website/trunk/en/faq.wml	2010-08-26 20:07:50 UTC (rev 23064)
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@
 
 <p>
 Once you've installed the Tor bundle, there are two questions to ask:
-first, is your Tor able to establish a circuit? And second, is your
+first, is your Tor able to establish a circuit? Second, is your
 Firefox correctly configured to send its traffic through Tor?
 </p>
 
@@ -768,17 +768,22 @@
 it says "Tor enabled" at the bottom right of your Firefox window. (For
 expert users, make sure your http proxy is set to localhost port
 8118.)</li>
-<li>Do you have incompatible Firefox extensions like Foxyproxy
-installed?  If so, uninstall them. (Note that using Foxy Proxy is NOT
+<li>Do you have incompatible Firefox extensions like FoxyProxy
+installed? If so, uninstall them. (Note that using FoxyProxy is NOT
 a sufficient substitute for Torbutton. There are many known attacks
 against a browser setup that does not include Torbutton. Read more
 in the <a href="<page torbutton/faq>">Torbutton FAQ</a> and the <a
 href="https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/design/">Torbutton design</a>
 specification.)</li>
-<li>Check that Polipo, the http proxy that passes traffic between Firefox
-and Tor, is running. On Windows, look in the task manager and check for
+<li>Check that Polipo (the http proxy that passes traffic between Firefox
+and Tor) is running. On Windows, look in the task manager and check for
 a polipo.exe. On OS X, open the utilities folder in your applications
 folder, and open Terminal.app. Then run "ps aux|grep polipo".</li>
+<li>If you're upgrading from OS X, some of the earlier OS X installers
+were broken in really unfortunate ways. You may find that <a href="<page
+docs/tor-doc-osx>#uninstall">uninstalling everything</a> and then
+installing a fresh bundle helps. Alas, the current uninstall instructions
+may not apply anymore to your old bundle. Sorry.</li>
 <li>If you're on Linux, make sure Privoxy isn't running, since it will
 conflict with the port that our Polipo configuration file picks.</li>
 <li>If you installed Polipo yourself (not from a bundle), did you edit the



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