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| Running Firefox twice - one for i2p, one for WWW |
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Tue Feb 21, 2006 6:46 pm
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Just a short guide for setting up a second profile in Firefox and using it side by side with the default (=WWW) one. This won't kill your browser settings (heh) and make surfing i2p and www at the same time much more comfortable.
1. Create the profile using the profile manager [link: www.mozilla.org] In this howto, I assume you call the new profile i2p (muy creativo, isn't it). You can reach it by entering
| Code: | | firefox.exe -profilemanager |
in the run... dialog. Linux/Mac/OtherUnix users won't need the .exe suffix of course and may enter it wherever apropiate (xterm etc). You need to close all running firefox instances to acces the profile manager!
2. Append
to your Firefox shortcut.
3. For the i2p Profile to run along with the default one, we need to set the environment variable MOZ_NO_REMOTE to 1. This can be done by creating a batch / shellscript file, for example
| Code: | SET MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
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cd C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
start firefox.exe -p i2p |
for Windows or
| Code: | #!/bin/sh
MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -p i2p |
for linux and MacOS(?).
You can find these examples at link: http://www.firefox-browser.de/wiki/MOZ_NO_REMOTE (site in german  ).
4. Create a shortcut to your newly made batch / shell script. Under non-Windows systems you might have to make the file executable before you can use it. Try
5. Setup the i2p profile for i2p (duh). You might want to install a different theme for the i2p profile, so you can easily distinct i2p and WWW browser 
6. Profit!!1! (This step is non-mandatory) |
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Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:23 pm
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Why? I usually just run one instance of firefox. Privoxy and switchproxy is all I really need to do that. Though other proxies such as tor and jap can also be used in addition instead of going through the i2p outproxies.
I think it is much nicer and probably costs less resources to do it this way instead of running two or more firefox instances, though maybe that is just me. |
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Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:37 pm
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I2P Confectionist
Joined: 22 Sep 2004
Posts: 96
Location: Behind You!
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| Anonymous wrote: | Why? I usually just run one instance of firefox. Privoxy and switchproxy is all I really need to do that. Though other proxies such as tor and jap can also be used in addition instead of going through the i2p outproxies.
I think it is much nicer and probably costs less resources to do it this way instead of running two or more firefox instances, though maybe that is just me. |
This fails when you want to browse anonymously and non-anonymously at the same time. If you want to do it, you need two instances at the same time, or you can just wait for one page to load, switch proxy, wait for another one to load, etc. |
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Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:18 pm
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[quote="Sugadude"]
| Anonymous wrote: | | or you can just wait for one page to load, switch proxy, wait for another one to load, etc. |
And if you do so, there's a higher chance of succes for attacks against your privacy (Images linked from the WWW etc).
I like having seperate things seperated |
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Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:18 pm
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If all you want to do is view eepsites, here's a convenient workaround:
Simply put *.com, *.net, etc. into the exceptions list of the proxy settings. Worked like a charm for me, since I found out pretty quick that near-total anonymity isn't worth the enormous latency that i2p clearly suffers from. |
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Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:34 pm
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| I tried all those methods. What I ended up with is Portable Firefox on a TrueCrypt volume. That way anything it does goes onto the encrypted volume and I can make it all go away if I need to. |
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Wed Jun 07, 2006 10:33 am
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| I know this is late breaking, but what I ended up doing is putting a filter into proxomitron to redirect .i2p sites to the proxy. This works fine for me in Opera. |
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Wed Jun 07, 2006 1:28 pm
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Site Admin
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| Anonymous wrote: | | I know this is late breaking, but what I ended up doing is putting a filter into proxomitron to redirect .i2p sites to the proxy. This works fine for me in Opera. |
You have to be careful when doing tld matching for proxy redirection - an eepsite can trivially discover your router's real IP address/identity by simply embedding non-i2p urls into the page (such as a remote image) and cross-referencing the two sites' logs. |
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:43 pm
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| Just Consider, that this HowTo only works, if the firefox instance used for normal web-browsing (profile 'default') was started first. If you first started the i2p firefox profile and then want to start the default profile it wont start and open another i2p profile instance instead. |
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:53 pm
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load opera and firefox on the same PC. firefox uses I2P through proxomitron; opera uses privoxy, a host file, and common sense.
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those of you who think you know everything are very annoying to those of us who do. |
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Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:01 pm
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| I have found this extention very convenient for I2P eepsites. It's pretty seemless, I also use it with Tor (I use the Vidalia package) for websites I'd like not to know my IP. |
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Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:02 pm
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| Foxyproxy is the extention I use, refeering to the previous post. |
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Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:03 pm
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| foxyproxy [link: foxyproxy.mozdev.org] is also a good alternative to switchproxy - and it's still under active development unlike the latter. |
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Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:06 pm
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| Anonymous wrote: | | Foxyproxy is the extention I use, refeering to the previous post. |
ahha, I did wonder which you were referring too - hence my previous cross-post  |
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Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:49 pm
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There is a way to do "dual browser instances" in an easier way than described by the OP:
1. Use the profile manager to set up an alternate profile (I'll call it "i2p" for now)
2. Make two shortcuts on your desktop/in your menu of choice
3. Change the shortcuts to be:
| Code: | | firefox -P default -a 1 |
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| Code: | | firefox -P i2p -a 2 |
And you are done. The first shortcut will start your default profile, the second one, your i2p profile. Additional clicks on the shortcuts will spawn new window for any existing processes, just as per usual. |
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