I don't recommend editing the firefox configuration or torc files because it can make your traffic stand out as unique in comparison to other users of your Tor software. Ideally everybody should be up to date and clone like. I'm not sure it will increase the speed of downloading from hidden services either, a lot of that information looks familiar but more applicable to the regular web.On Tor, I think loading is sort of bunched together, you have have staggered loading times. Everything loads. Then nothing. Repeat. I'm not sure if this is connected to increasing anonymity, inefficient Tor programming/network utilization or something else, but in any case I think may will defeat any speed optimizations you may attempt, over and beyond the possibility of threatening your anonymity.Quote from: GiveUsSome on September 27, 2012, 06:07 amwhy doesnt sr us HTTPS?Because SR is not on the web. It is on the Internet. But not the world wide web. And Verisign & Co are unlikely to give us a HTTPS certificate :)We don't need one, because our traffic is encrypted already since it's inside the Tor network. Side Note: The developers of firefox made an interesting announcement I didn't see before, it was May 9th of this year.QuoteNow in Aurora: Secure Google Searches are default. In Aurora when you search using the location bar, search box, or the right-click menu, your search will be sent to Google through a secure (HTTPS) connection. You wont notice a difference in how you search, but your Google search suggestions and search results will be presented through a secure web site.*Enabling HTTPS for these searches shields our users from network infrastructure that may be gathering data about the users or modifying/censoring their search results.* Additionally, using HTTPS helps providers like Google remove information from the referrer string. While Google users may expect Google to know what they are searching for, Firefox users may not be aware these search terms are often transmitted to sites they visit when they click on items in the search results; enabling HTTPS search helps sites like Google strip this information from the HTTP referrer string, putting the user better in control of when and to whom their interests are shared.That is interesting. Seems like the browser app/google people are worried about, not just privacy, which is a natural perpetual concern, but from the wording they're using they may know a lot more than they're letting on. Or maybe it's my imagination. But network infrastructure cannot mean criminals or hackers threatening privacy, who don't, you know, traditionally install fibre and routers. It has to be specifically ISPs or governments. I wonder if they're pre-empting the widespread use of deep packet inspection on everything or something along those lines.