Natty: Torbutton & FireFox 4.0.1

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Crap...

Every time FireFox is upgraded I have to go through a cycle of Torbutton not being compatible. Will I have to load the proxy settings manually everytime now?

Does anyone have an idea when this will be resolved; or should I downgrade my browser, and if so; which version should I downgrade to?

I'm currently on Firefox 4.0.1



Thanks, Hannibal

[Mick007]

I am working on the same problem right now. I am running Natty as well, trying to downgrade to FF 3.6 and have nothing but problems.

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Thanks for the reply,

I'm just using the Tor-Browser bundle from the Tor-Project now. It doesn't need installation, so I'll just use this for the time being.

The upgrade to Natty also removed Tork automatically. I much prefer Tork to Vidalia, because it is 'much' more powerful. Instead of just randomly switching relays, it also allows you to select 'which' country you want to 'be' from. It also allows you to manually select your relays and their order, and many other features that Vidalia will 'never' offer.

Tork was such a good app!



Hannibal

[JohnH]

Hi there,

I've got Vidalia happily sitting with Tor loaded but I can't get Tor Button to work at all. I've downloaded the latest alpha (which worked with FF4.0) but everything is now locked out.

I can't even get Tor Browser to run.....

Upgrades can be very frustrating sometimes...I'll just have to wait until things catch up I guess.

Regards
John

[jusis]

I just now installed the newest alpha version, and it seems to work in firefox 4.0.1

[jusis]

https://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.2.2.25-alpha.tar.gz

or click on "install alpha" here:

https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/index.html.en


it is mentioned that the version is unstable, though, whatever that may turn out to imply..

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

Thanks for the reply, jusis (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1214368)

The first link you provided downloaded TOR, 'not' TORBUTTON, so I tried the second link, which delivered what it promised.

TORButton Alpha installed just like you said it would and works correctly.

I then surfed to:

https://check.torproject.org/

And verified that TOR is indeed working.

I also surfed to:

http://www.google.com/

and was redirected to:

http://www.google.cz/

Česká republika

It's always fun to watch that happening, when TOR's running...:lolflag:

BTW, I wonder if anyone will be continuing delevopment on TOR'K.' It was a great app, and someone needs to adopt that mutt, or add those features to Vidalia.




Just my opinion

[coljohnhannibalsmith]

It appears this problem is now solved!!!

http://tshirtgroove.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/problem-solved-tshirt.jpg

[Captain_Falafel]

Thanks for the reply, jusis (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=1214368)

The first link you provided downloaded TOR, 'not' TORBUTTON, so I tried the second link, which delivered what it promised.

TORButton Alpha installed just like you said it would and works correctly.

I then surfed to:

https://check.torproject.org/

And verified that TOR is indeed working.

I also surfed to:

http://www.google.com/

and was redirected to:

http://www.google.cz/

Česká republika

It's always fun to watch that happening, when TOR's running...:lolflag:

BTW, I wonder if anyone will be continuing delevopment on TOR'K.' It was a great app, and someone needs to adopt that mutt, or add those features to Vidalia.




Just my opinion

This isn't working for me for some reason. I did exactly this. I have FF 4.0.1, torbutton 1.3.3-alpha installed. When I go to a webpage when it's enabled, I get this FF error page: "The proxy server is refusing connections. Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections."
what am I doing wrong?

[pengper]

Sames here!

[log_rima]

Same here!!!! (Running from IRAN)

P.S.: It works like a charm in windows 7, and also I have checked the settings; Just the same!!

[SynonM]

Sames here!

Check for add-ons that might interfere with Tor button.

[SynonM]

This isn't working for me for some reason. I did exactly this. I have FF 4.0.1, torbutton 1.3.3-alpha installed. When I go to a webpage when it's enabled, I get this FF error page: "The proxy server is refusing connections. Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections."
what am I doing wrong?


This is what I did...

stop all things related to Tor (or log off and log back in)

start terminal


sudo apt-get install aptitude
sudo aptitude reinstall tor tor-geoipdb polipo vidalia -ygo here and skip to step four (4) do steps 4-6

http://kyleabaker.com/2011/01/11/how-to-setup-and-use-tor-anonymity-in-ubuntu/

and do this (quoted from http://goshawknest.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/how-to-install-tor-on-ubuntu-natty-11-04/)
(note: it is optional)
So it’s just uncommenting the two lines. Tor should be already working without any trouble, but it may be slow and u are not contributing to the Tor network. I highly suggest u to configure tor such that u can share your bandwidth with the network.
For changing this u have to modify /etc/tor/torrc and change these two lines:
#ORPort 9001
#DirPort 9030
into
ORPort 9001
DirPort 9030
most importantly...

a program called Privoxy is known to interfere with Polipo
(I think it comes with a version of the Tor pkg but I don't know)

go to your terminal

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy stop
sudo /etc/init.d/polipo startnext if you have not already goto https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/ (https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/)
then download the version of torbutton for your version of firefox (alpha = ff 4.0.1)
(stable = ff 3.)
start Vidalia
success = green onion
start firefox
Check for and then disable add-ons that might interfere with Tor button.
start or enable torbutton


goto https://check.torproject.org/
and if you don't get this
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4228/minionion.png

I messed up or you did... ;) ... let me know.

[abdulrahman alhussni]

hello .... I did All that ... it worked for sometime ... but after restarting the computer vidalia refused to start tor because it was already running ... I solved this problem too after hundreds of Failed attempts ... But right now I have a new problem which i dont know its source which is this error message :

[Warning] The https proxy sent back an unexpected status code 403 ("Forbidden"). Closing.


I appreciate any help :)

[SynonM]

hello .... I did All that ... it worked for sometime ... but after restarting the computer vidalia refused to start tor because it was already running ... I solved this problem too after hundreds of Failed attempts ... But right now I have a new problem which i dont know its source which is this error message :

[Warning] The https proxy sent back an unexpected status code 403 ("Forbidden"). Closing.


I appreciate any help :)


The best I can tell you is that you may have some other type of proxy device or software interfering. You might need to reinstall firefox and everything else of reinstall them.

use
sudo aptitude reinstall "name_of_software"
example
sudo aptitude reinstall firefox
or sudo apt-get remove "software"
then sudo apt-get install "software

[SynonM]

sorry it took so long to reply, but I think you might still be having trouble with privoxy. So run this before starting vidalia...

sudo /etc/init.d/privoxy stop