[tor-talk] Vidalia Bundle (Tor, Polipo & Vidalia)

[Sophia Martin]

Can I please withdraw from receiving 3 emails a day in discussions I'm not
involved in thank you

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Julian Yon <julian at yon.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:39:05 -0500
> "David H. Lipman" <DLipman at Verizon.Net> wrote:
>
> > From: <andrew at torproject.is>
> >
> > > We stopped distributing polipo a while ago, see
> > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6039 for the
> > > progress in getting the references off the page.
> > >
> >
> > Not happy about that.
> >
> > I guess I will NOT update the software and Tor Browser bundle is NOT
> > what is wanted at all.
> >
> > For example I uses the combo of Tor, Polipo and Vidalia with Malzilla.
>
> Nothing stops you pointing your browser at your own copy of Polipo[1]
> and pointing that at Tor's SOCKS port. Or skipping Polipo (as it's no
> longer a technical necessity) and pointing your browser directly at
> Tor. Having said that, the Tor Browser *is* Mozilla, with a handful of
> patches and a couple of preinstalled addons. If you're experienced
> enough to understand the implications of not using the default setup,
> then you're experienced enough to take what's in the bundle and
> configure it some other way. And if you really can't spare the 35M that
> the superfluous browser takes up, then delete it!
>
>
> Julian
>
> [1] http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
>
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> 3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012 at jry.me>
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