Switching Tor on and off on Mac OS X Tiger

[Josh]

Jean-Paul Desbruères <iminium at wanadoo.fr> writes:

> As using Tor slows down quite a bit web browsing and as going
> to the weather forecast site for instance does not really need
> a protection is there a simple way to switch Tor on or off on
> Mac OS 10 Tiger ?

If you're using Firefox you should take a look at the SwitchProxy
extension.  Setup details for tor use are here:

http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-switchproxy.html

Also, you could specify your weather site as a proxy exception.
If you want to do this with safari, enter e.g. weather.com into
the "Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains" text box:

http://tor.eff.org/img/screenshot-osx-proxy-settings.png

(that image is from
 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-doc-osx.html)

Josh