how much does opera leak?

[Phil]

To answer my own qusetion, Privoxy does npt prevent the dns leak, according to one of the comments below:

http://archetwist.com/en/opera/operator?page=2

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This does not solve the problem! I logged all packets with wireshark and still got plain DNS requests. I tried setting up privoxy with opera again, but I still got DNS leaks. I found out that the problem is not Polipo or Privoxy, it's Opera itself because Opera doesn't support SOCKS proxy! Thus Opera always has to do DNS requests itself.

See here: http://www.opera.com/…ch/view/194/

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--- On Sun, 10/5/08, Phil <philtickle200 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Phil <philtickle200 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: how much does opera leak?
> To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 2:41 PM
> Did using Privoxy plug the dns leak?
> 
> --- On Fri, 10/3/08, phobos at rootme.org
> <phobos at rootme.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: phobos at rootme.org <phobos at rootme.org>
> > Subject: Re: how much does opera leak?
> > To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> > Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 8:24 PM
> > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:02:47PM +0200,
> eugen at leitl.org
> > wrote 0.4K bytes in 12 lines about:
> > : How much does Opera leak in comparison with a
> tightly
> > configured
> > : Firefox?
> > 
> > I haven't tested the latest 9.5x releases of
> Opera, but
> > previously
> > Opera leaked dns.  There also was no easy way to
> disable
> > plugins.  I had
> > to reconfigure the browser to enable or disable
> plugins. 
> > There's no
> > handy plugin for opera like torbutton.
> > 
> > I know OperaTor exists, but as both Opera and OperaTor
> are
> > closed source, I didn't bother
> > to evaluate it in depth.  It seemed to be just Opera
> > pointed at Tor.  
> > 
> > -- 
> > Andrew