[tor-talk] Tor Browser protections

[Tom Ritter]

On 18 December 2012 17:52, <niles24 at hushmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> I have a small question.
>
> Does Tor Browser protect against IP/DNS leaks more than regular Firefox?
> If I change the network settings in regular Firefox to local proxy and then
> disable the Tor service, I cannot connect to the Internet, so it doesn't
> look like anything can leak unless there's a bug.
>
> I do realise that Tor Browser has many other ways that it protects my
> anonymity. But I would like to know about whether you think Firefox has not
> implemented SOCKS 5 support properly.
>
> Thanks. Niles.
>

Yes.  At least based on what I see here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/tree/HEAD:/src/current-patches/firefox
and in particular here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/src/current-patches/firefox/0016-Prevent-WebSocket-DNS-leak.patch


-tom