Embedded IM using Tor

Ringo Kamens 2600denver at gmail.com
Sat Sep 20 03:13:50 UTC 2008


I have heard of Javascript breaking Tor but that might be speculation.
Regardless, running Javascript while using Tor is dangerous. I would
suggest using a program like Pidgin
Ringo

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, through Tor.
> All communications coming from Firefox *should* use the proxy settings you
> specify.
> There have been cases in the past where Firefox didn't honor the proxy
> settings.  However, those issues have since been fixed.
>
>
> - Kyle
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:22 PM, M <moeedsalam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes through tor or yes directly?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Kyle Williams <kyle.kwilliams at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Peter Chang <peter.chang.2002 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am running firefox enabled with tor. If I use embedded IM e.g. yahoo
>>>> or gtalk within the browser will the connection to the yahoo/google
>>>> chatserver go through Tor or directly.
>>>>
>>
>
>



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