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Re: Torpark - Anonymous, Portable Browser Released

I got it "sort of" working on my "workstation" box running W2K. It took a while to connect running from a fast hard drive, and forever to connect from a U3 enabled thumb drive. With TOR disabled, it ran OK. With TOR enabled, it hung and crashed VSMON.EXE from ZAF. With TOR enabled, when it didn't crash, throughput was horrible. I got less than 10% of available bandwidth according to speakeasy.net.
I was looking for something to carry on my U3 drive, but I guess I'll have to keep looking.

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Re: Torpark - Anonymous, Portable Browser Released

said by dbarber

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I was looking for something to carry on my U3 drive, but I guess I'll have to keep looking.

What's wrong with Portable Firefox that this browser is supposedly based on?

»software.u3.com/Product_Details.···ng=en-US

»portableapps.com/apps/internet/f···portable

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Apparently John T. Haller is involved in writing both. Given his record with portable FF, I suspect that feedback on the product would be taken seriously to improve it.

My first try was when I unpacked it directly to my USB - mistake - didn't work. When I unpacked and copied the folder to USB, worked OK except for the slow circuit build and timeouts requiring a "wait".

Personally, the TOR thing serves me little purpose. I can't see using it on any regular basis, but I believe the package and authors are legitimate. My only concern would be those who expect Tor to provide total security from being identified and downloading a malware-hacked distribution. That's why I always check the MD5 against the documented hash value when getting open source stuff.

It *was* fun playing with it - it even worked on a WIN98SE machine of mine, although quite slowly.

May 8 dated Newsforge article;
»business.newsforge.com/article.p···/1657204

Edit - here's newadvsplash.dll info, seems to be an open source splash screen and initialization plugin;
»nsis.sourceforge.net/NewAdvSplash_plug-in

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