fastestfox and too many connections

[M]

On 4/2/2010 1:59 PM, Faraaz Damji wrote:
> Got in touch with the admin (email address posted here: 
> http://smarterfox.com/help/).  Hope I asked the right question.
>
> Here is the response.
>
> -Faraaz

Greatly appreciated Faraaz!

>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: fastestfox and too many connections
> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 01:40:17 -0700
> From: Yongqian Li
> To: Faraaz Damji <lists0 at frazzydee.ca>
>
> Hi,
>
> Thank you for this email.
>
> Yes, FastestFox should obey Tor's settings. FastestFox is an Firefox
> addon, and so it uses the API provided by Firefox to connect. Thus, it
> will end up using whatever settings Firefox is configured to use.
>
> The Awesomebar search queries Google using Google's AJAX API. Again,
> this is using Firefox's API so it should obey whatever proxy settings
> Firefox has been configured to use.
>
> If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask me.
>
> Sincerely,
> Yongqian Li
>
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Faraaz Damji <lists0 at frazzydee.ca> 
> wrote:
> > This message was posted on Tor's or-talk mailing list.  I think you are
> > probably best positioned to answer.
> >
> > As you may know, Tor is an anonymity network.
> >
> > I believe M's question basically boils down to, "does fastestfox 
> obey proxy
> > settings entirely"? This includes DNS resolves and auto-searches 
> with the
> > "Awesomebar", which should be done over the proxy (I believe 
> torbutton sets
> > proxies for HTTP, SSL, and SOCKS v5).
> >
> > Thanks.  If you want to reply directly: 
> http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
> >
> > Otherwise if you reply to this message I will forward it to the list 
> for
> > you.
> >
> > -Faraaz
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: fastestfox and too many connections
> > Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 10:36:40 +0500
> > From: M <moeedsalam at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> > To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> >
> > 2 Questions:
> >
> > - Does anyone know where the addon "fastestfox" compromises anonymity?
> > When i type anything in the address bar, it seems to do some type of
> > search and a dropdown list appears with choices. Will this "search" be
> > obeying TOR settings?
> >
> > - Yesterday i opened the network map and it showed that TOR had created
> > like over a hundred circuits. First time i have seen that!
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