Firefox extension: TorButton

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Cool. Could you make a Linux version, say at least SuSE and RH 
compatible? That would be cool, especially since most of us are in fact 
UNIX users... On the other hand, that makes most of us non n00bs so.... ;)

~Andrew

Scott Squires wrote:
> I have written/adapated a firefox extension that provides a 1-click way for
> users to enable or disable tor.  It adds a panel to the statusbar that says
> "Tor Enabled" (in green) or "Tor Disabled" (in red).  The user may click on the
> panel to toggle the status.  If the user (or some other extension) changes the
> proxy settings, the change is automatically reflected in the statusbar.
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> The extension also includes a button which the user can add to the toolbar.  It
> apparently is considered bad design for a firefox extension to automatically
> add a button to a user's toolbar, so I added the statusbar panel.  It might not
> be as natural to click the statusbar, but it is easier to see, and it has a
> tooltip to make it more clear.
>
> I have tested it with Firefox 1.5, and I hope it also works with older versions
> but I don't have any to test it with.  Firefox extensions can be installed by
> windows software installers by adding a registry key, so this could be
> distributed in the Tor/Privoxy combo installer.  See this page for details:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Adding_Extensions_using_the_Windows_Registry
>
> If you would like to try it out, TorButton 1.0 can be downloaded from
> http://zargon.hobbesnet.org/~squires/torbutton-1.0.xpi
> (BTW, XPIs are simply zips of the extension soucecode.)
>
> If Firefox doesn't ask you if you if you want to install it, choose "open file"
> from the file menu and open it that way, it should then prompt you whether you
> want to install it.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
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