help: "Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections"

[The Doctor]

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Lefcoe Yaacov wrote:

> I recently installed Tor onto Firefox 3.5.9 on a PowerPC Mac Powerbook
> running OSX 10.5.8. It worked fine for about 5 days and then starting
> giving me the message on the subject line. I changed proxy settings from
> "none" to "auto-detect" and it didnt help. Any help is appreciated.

What proxy software did you install?  Privoxy or Polipo?

Check the list of running processes on that machine.  Did the proxy
suddenly terminate, which would break the connection between Firefox and
the tor daemon?

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