OS X support document suggestions

Chris Palmer chris at eff.org
Tue Apr 4 20:42:43 UTC 2006


Roger Dingledine writes:

> > http://tor.eff.org/docs/tor-doc-osx.html.en
> > 
> > does not mention Firefox or any Firefox plugin at all.
> 
> Actually, the page does talk about both Firefox and plugins. Can you
> provide a patch that makes it clearer for you that it does? :)

Sigh.  I am sorry.  Here is a patch:

Index: tor-doc-osx.wml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/website/docs/en/tor-doc-osx.wml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 tor-doc-osx.wml
--- tor-doc-osx.wml	2 Apr 2006 10:16:56 -0000	1.8
+++ tor-doc-osx.wml	4 Apr 2006 20:36:09 -0000
@@ -78,9 +78,17 @@
 a plugin that makes it easy to switch between using Tor and using a
 direct connection.</p>
 
+<h3>Mozilla Firefox</h3>
+
 <p>Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser's proxy
-settings.
-In Firefox, this is in Mozilla|Preferences|Advanced|Proxies.</p>
+settings.  In Firefox, this is in the Firefox | Preferences menu item,
+and then click Connection Settings... in the General tab.</p>
+
+<img src="../img/screenshot-firefox-preferences-1.png.png" border="1" />
+<br /><br />
+
+<img src="../img/screenshot-firefox-preferences-2.png.png" border="1" />
+<br /><br />
 
 <p>
 You should fill in "localhost"
@@ -91,6 +99,11 @@
 to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK".</p>
 </p>
 
+<img src="../img/screenshot-firefox-proxy-settings.png.png" border="1"
+/> <br /><br />
+
+<h3>Apple Safari</h3>
+
 <p>If you want to use Tor with Safari, you need to change your
 Network Settings. Select your Network Preferences from the Apple |
 Location menu:</p>


If you accept it, you or I will need to commit the images, too.

> I'm hoping that we can stop doing screenshots of proxy config windows
> at all, and just switch to Torbutton. Is this naive?

TorButton is delightful, and I don't think we should do screenshots
showing merely how to install Firefox plugins, and that's all that would
be required for TorButton due to its delightful simplicity.  We might as
well keep the documents for SwitchProxy until they become too out of
date.


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