Re: Problem with Tor & IceCat

[znavko]

Yes, Tor plugin in Icecat 63 not works properly. I reported it to a developer through his website.

There is one important thing that Tor plugin breaks. If you look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tor#Firefox there are lines you should configure in about:config page in Icecat

network.proxy.socks_remote_dns    true
network.dns.disablePrefetch       true
network.dns.disableIPv6           true

So plugin resets  'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' to 'false' every time it runs and every time you start Icecat having tor plugin is activated. And this is why ISP performs dns requests.

Jan 7, 2019, 2:02 AM by address@hidden:

On Sun, Jan 06, 2019 at 15:09:51 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote:

Now, when you start icecat, you may have to click on the tor plugin to

activate it, but it normally autostarts for me.

Also, at least for me, that doesn't configure my browser to access tor

hidden services. But it does run all of your http traffic through the

tor network, which is pretty cool.

That's concerning to me: it seems to imply that DNS requests are _not_

being proxied through Tor, which could leak very sensitive information

to your ISP and other parties.

I use FoxyProxy Standard[0] (just by habit over the many years I've used

Tor with Firefox), so I hadn't tried the Addon distributed with

Icecat. FoxyProxy has an option to proxy DNS requests through Tor (and

does so by default IIRC).

[0]: https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FoxyProxy_Standard

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