Configuring your browser to use Tor

If you're using Firefox (we recommend it), you don't need this page. Simply install the Torbutton plugin, restart your Firefox, and you're all set:

Otherwise, you need to manually configure your browser's proxy settings.

In Mozilla and Firefox on Windows, this is in Tools - Options - General - Connection Settings.

In Firefox on OS X, it's Firefox - Preferences - General - Connection Settings.

In Firefox on Linux, this is in Edit - Preferences - Advanced - Proxies.

You should fill in "localhost" and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Polipo, as shown here. (Even though Polipo doesn't support FTP and Gopher, you should set them up anyway.) You should also fill out the socks proxy entry to point directly to Tor ("localhost", "9050", and socks5) to cover protocols besides the first four. Then click "OK".

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