Apart from the quoted docs, I was more thinking a detailed how-to/why-for kindof thing.
/Martin S 2014-08-13 23:05 GMT+02:00 Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu>: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: >> The Privoxy part of the chain could be an issue. What is your >> reason for using Privoxy? >> In general, I find Tor to be faster overall, since overhauls in >> TorBrowser - when they stopped using Privoxy (& likely started other >> speed increasing methods). >> Other network changes could be partly responsibility for increased speed. > > Privoxy will be slower for two reasons: > > A) It doesn't do the pipelining, etc that your browser can do. Earlier > versions of privoxy would fetch the whole page before passing any of > it to the browser. Maybe newer versions of Privoxy are smarter, but I > bet there are still web performance features that it disables by adding > another link in the chain. > > B) It doesn't make use of Tor's "optimistic data" feature, which sends > the first chunk of application-level data along with the begin cell, > effectively cutting out one of the two round-trips for a new page fetch. > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3890#comment:11 > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/181-optimistic-data-client.txt > https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/src/current-patches/firefox/0027-Use-Optimistic-Data-SOCKS-variant.patch > > I guess the broader question is what the original poster was trying > to do -- if the goal is to give Tor's protection to everybody in the > organization, and the way they did it was to leave everybody using > Internet Explorer, and then redirect outgoing traffic into Privoxy > which sends it through Tor, then the users are missing out on all > the application-level privacy and security features that Tor Browser > gives you: > https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ > > --Roger > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Regards, Martin S -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
