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About kombi64
Freelancer, reader, writed and passionate walker. OS-agnostic, Mac user since Dec 2006.
Last Login:8 Jul 2007 16:02
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BFilter
Jul 8 2007
****.

KOMBI64  Features: works right out of the box, kills ads and junk scripts with The Gread Heuristic Lightsaber, configures Mac's newtwork preferences automatically, doesn't need blacklist updating, and the ad-removal is configurable. Love it.   
(Version 1.0.9)

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BFilter
Jul 8 2007

KOMBI64  Ad-blocking is sweet, but forwarding is obscure.

Aside from forwarding issues: the app seems like an optimal ad-filtering solution - heuristic analysis, my God!, someone had finally implemented in ad-blocking... and flash-filtering!

1) I have my TOR running, occasionally I use some HTTP proxies, and I decided to configure them both into one proxy-chain and see what happens then.

2) Here's my setup:

Browser -> bfilter HTTP proxy (127.0.0.1:8080) -> TOR SOCKS4 proxy (127.0.0.1:9050) -> some HTTP proxy -> Internet.

Now I point Firefox' HTTP proxy to 127.0.0.1:8080, ads are filtered out, if it point it to 8118 (TOR), my identity is masked, but not both. :)

3) Here's my forwarding.xml (which doesn't work):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<forwarding>

<option name="foo" selected="selected">

<proxy-chain>

<proxy>

<type>socks4</type>

<host>127.0.0.1</host>

<port>9050</port>

</proxy>

<proxy>

<type>http</type>

<host>ip address goes here</host>

<port>port goes here</port>

</proxy>

</proxy-chain>

</option>

</forwarding>

4) I've searched web thoroughly, read all the available docs and forum discussions, but haven't figured out what am I doing wrong.

Hope it can be fixed.  
(Version 1.0.9)

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BFilter
Jul 29 2007

JART  Sorry for the late response. It seems there is no way to get notifications when a comment is posted.

About your problem: the scenario you describe doesn't require messing with config files. Just create a network location for Tor, specify localhost:9050 as SOCKS proxy, and make sure it works. Then you just re-install BFilter and it will create a "(BF) Tor" location, which will work as you want:

Browser -> BFilter -> Tor -> Internet.

Editing the forwarding.xml file is only necessary if you want to have more than one chain between BFilter and the Internet.

Note that on OSX, an entry in forwarding.xml overrides a network location of the same name. But again, you don't need modifying forwarding.xml for your scenario to work.  
(Version 1.0.9)

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Afloat
Jan 10 2007

KOMBI64  I've forgot to mention - I'm a switcher and do not now how to find crashlogs. But i'll try! )  
(Version 1.0b4)

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Afloat
Jan 10 2007

KOMBI64  Installed it on MacOS 10.4.5 and tried to enable Afloat Beta 0.4 through Sys. Prefs.

Everything crashed. =)

My preferences for Safari zapped. =)

I've rebooted, reenabled Afloat - fruitlessly! and menubar started to blink.

I've decided to uninstall it, but haven't find the Uninstall option.

Guys, this is wrong. Please, help me with uninstallation and release stable version ASAP!  
(Version 1.0b4)

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Afloat
Jan 10 2007

KOMBI64  I've forgot to mention - I'm a switcher and do not now how to find crashlogs. But i'll try! )  
(Version 1.0b4)

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Afloat
Aug 23 2007

GEEKFLEA  Try appZapper.. It's an uninstaller app that solved my problem... It uninstall pref pane's plugins... You should give it a try! =)  
(Version 1.0b4)

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