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.
In Opera it's Tools - Preferences(Advanced) - Network - Proxy servers.
While we cannot advise using IE, for those wishing less-than-real anonymity: In IE, it's Tools - Internet Options - Connections - LAN Settings - Check Proxy Server - Advanced.

You should fill in "localhost" and "8118" to point the top four protocols to Privoxy, as shown here. (Even though Privoxy 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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