[tor-commits] [flashproxy/master] Mention that you should not run Flash in your Tor browser.

dcf at torproject.org dcf at torproject.org
Sun Oct 16 23:35:24 UTC 2011


commit aad8ce3c5287c2eed1db7830b2c285830ab83d1f
Author: David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com>
Date:   Sun Oct 16 16:32:55 2011 -0700

    Mention that you should not run Flash in your Tor browser.
    
    Just because the RTMFP client connector uses Flash, we don't want to
    give anyone another excuse to install Flash in the browser they use for
    Tor.
---
 README |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README
index bc09542..7e4dceb 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ the Tor client, which the other methods don't.
 	$ ./connector.py 127.0.0.1:9001 127.0.0.1:9002
 3. Open in a browser
 	file:///home/user/flashproxy/swfcat.swf?client=1&debug=1
+   This should *not* be the same browser you use to browse over Tor. You
+   should not run Flash in your Tor browser. Use a separate Firefox
+   profile (firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager) or use a separate
+   browser entirely.
 4. Run Tor using the included torrc file.
 	$ tor -f flashproxy/torrc
 





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