Tor along with Deluge and Chromium

[sindhu_sundar]

Hi!

I am user or Tor (Onion router for privacy).

I use Chromium browser for web browsing and I use Deluge to download via torrents.

My problem is that there is no Gnome applet to switch between "locations" of network proxy settings in Gnome, on the fly. Due to which I have to manually change the settings every time I want to use my torrent client, because Google chrome doesn't have an individual option of using SOCKS proxy - it uses Gnome environment proxy settings.

I am forced to use Firefox with tor button while keeping my gnome proxy settings as "direct connection to the internet".

I want to be able to use Tor via Google Chrome but at the same time use my torrent client via direct connection to the internet.

How can I go about?

[marshmallow1304]

You may wish to try tsocks.

transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy

tsocks provides transparent network access through a SOCKS version 4
or 5 proxy (usually on a firewall). tsocks intercepts the calls
applications make to establish TCP connections and transparently
proxies them as necessary. This allows existing applications to use
SOCKS without recompilation or modification.

[xthatrox]

Try using switchy - it works great and has plenty of extra features. Version 1.6 works well on ubuntu.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions...abniblemipncjj

[MithrandirAgain]

Try using switchy - it works great and has plenty of extra features. Version 1.6 works well on ubuntu.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions...abniblemipncjj

Thanks for posting that link! It works great on Iron too!

[ewan86]

When I installed it in chrome it said it needed to access to all web sites i visit and all the data on my computer?? Should I be concerned about my privacy!!???

ps and if not what settings do I put in?? I have Tor installed and working on firefox with the tor button.

[magnatron]

Chrome has an app for that called Proxy Switchy http://switchy.samabox.com/ All these Tor or Onion route settings onto Deluge are a bit over-kill imho as deluge encrypts all your traffic to and from the peer anyways, so they know your downloading, they just have no idea what. In the Deluge settings there is an option to import a blocklist of IP ranges. HTH