2017-06-23 at 3:15 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra
I just use a separate copy of firefox with everything turned off proxied directly to the SOCKS5 tor gateway
I never did trust the tor bundle, especially after our good friends at the FBI exploited the legacy build of Firefox it used to be bundled with
Yeah that's one way to do it, reminds me of back in the day when torbutton was just a firefox add-on and you had to configure everything manually.
I like the anti-fingerprinting features built into the browser bundle (though FF with JS turned off and the Tor user agent is probably good enough), and these days they seem to stay pretty up to date with the latest firefox ESR, so I'm pretty comfortable with using it.
Also, not sure if you know about Tor stream isolation, but you can set it to use a different circuit (and therefore exit IP) for each destination address by putting IsolateDestAddr next to the socks port in torrc. The bundle does this automatically and it probably improves anonymity.
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2017-06-23 at 3:34 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
I didn't know that, would help a lot with avoiding timing attacks. I don't generally use tor for exit nodes but I'll keep it in mind
2017-06-23 at 3:52 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Completely unrelated, rings relate to how your computer sections and protects the memory it's currently working with.
The kernel or operating system has access to ring 0 and everything higher, but programs you run like a browser will only have access to ring 5 and higher, so that they can't interfere with the memory Windows is using. Different applications also have 'protected' memory segments that stop them from interfering with each others' memory, but it's really a lot more complicated than I can condense into a paragraph
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2017-06-23 at 3:54 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
Typically an addon or plugin will run within the same memory space as the browser itself, but it's sometimes possible to 'sandbox' them so that they cannot access anything outside of their own little segment. That would stop most plugins from working correctly though as they need access to your browser's memory to be able to detect and block ads, for example
2017-07-20 at 5:15 PM UTC
Fire Fox
-Grab and Drag - Allows grabbing and dragging for touchscreen devices
2017-07-20 at 6:18 PM UTC
whats a good web page > png add on for firfox ???
i couldnt remember its name but it was good. it can save the entire length of a web page in png.
have it during mozzilla 3.x days.
2017-10-18 at 10:48 PM UTC
Here's two more FireFox extensions I came across that are really nice...
Grab and Drag - Scroll vertically on touchscreen devices(works well on my SP3)
Text to Voice - Select text, right-click, and select "Speak It" to have the text read aloud
2017-10-18 at 11:32 PM UTC
AngryOnion
Big Wig
[the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
Bluhell firewall
Video down load helper
2017-10-19 at 1:13 AM UTC
Baby ill penetrate ur ring O any dai