LOCATING HIDDEN SERVERS
http://www.onion-router.net/Publications/locating-hidden-servers.pdf

If you don’t want to click a link then just Google the title.

to set the variable “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” open a new empty tab in your Firefox, with CTRL+T.
In the URL-bar, where you’d give an URL like http://tor.eff.org/, you have to type “about:config”. Then type “network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” into the “filter” field.
Double-click onto the entry until the value of “Value” is set to “true”.

Regarding the cookies-thing: Cookies itself yre not harmful as long as you don’t forget to wipe out your personal data before and aftezr using TOR, also flushing the cookies.

If you still have questions, ask them here or write me an email.

Hope that help,
Alex.

Hope this is the right place to start. These “do’s and don’ts” are very helpful to me. They point up a couple of things, out of many, that I hope to learn about. In your “do’s” you say to configure SOCKS correctly. I am using Firefox, Mac OS X Tiger, with Tor/Vadalia/Privoxy.

Is this configuring done with Terminal, because I am beginning to gather from all the FAQ’s, Manuals, papers and link referrals I am trying to peruse, that this is where this “Command Line” stuff is done? I have never used Terminal and maybe I need to learn how.

Anyway, where can I find out what Firefox’s (your suggestion),
“variable network.proxy.socks_remote_dns” is, so that I may
change it to “true” ?

Is this in Firefox’s Preferences “connect to internet” settings?
Right now they look like: Manual proxy configuration is checked
HTTP Proxy: localhost Port: 8118
SSL Proxy: localhost Port: 8118
SOCKS Host: localhost Port: 9050
SOCKS v5: is checked
No Proxy for: localhost, ###.#.#.#
FTP & Gopher Proxies: left alone
My proxies in my Mac’s Network Preferences are set according to the Tor website settings (for Safari), with passive FTP.

Again, I hope this was all right to comment and post this request here. I came upon this site while searching for answers to using Tor, et al. because, actually, I was directed here by Tor because of being rerouted by my browser, while Tor was enabled. Found a site that posted that exact same problem, asked Tor about it and they sent me here.

I guess when using Tor/Firefox, “Cookies” need to be on?

Okay. Thanks.