[tor-bugs] #3009 [Tor bundles/installation]: Polipo is included (yet should not be?) in TBB 2.2.24-1 alpha (Windows) (was: Privoxy is included (yet should not be?) in TBB 2.2.24-1 alpha (Windows))

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#3009: Polipo is included (yet should not be?) in TBB 2.2.24-1 alpha (Windows)
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 Reporter:  HG2G                      |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [ticket:3009 HG2G]:
 > Privoxy is included in TBB 2.2.24-1 alpha for Windows even though
 Privoxy is not needed. I tested setting !TorButton to 'custom' with only
 SOCKS proxy set*, thus bypassing Privoxy, and TBB passed all 'Tor checks'
 (e.g., https://check.torproject.org). Using DNSEye there are no DNS leaks
 and I did not have any timeout erros when only using SOCKS proxy setting
 in Firefox.

 Unchecking the ‘Use Polipo’ checkbox in Torbutton's ‘Preferences’ dialog
 is easier.

 We aren't worried about DNS leaks anymore -- Polipo has been included in
 the recent non-alpha releases purely in order to work around a hard-coded
 timeout in Firefox's SOCKS client support.

 > Testing TBB 2.2.24-1 alpha (Firefox) page load speed with !FireBug and
 !HammerHead showed faster page load times without Privoxy vs with Privoxy
 for https://torproject.org, [https://blog.torproject.org/
 https://blog.torproject.org] and
 http://kpvz7ki2v5agwt35.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.

 But since you could browse to a hidden service, it's likely that the copy
 of Firefox in that TBB is patched to fix the SOCKS timeout bug (as it
 should be), so Polipo ''is'' unnecessary.

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