Reviews for I2P In Private Browsing
I2P In Private Browsing by idk
Review by boomer77
Rated 4 out of 5
by boomer77, 3 years agoThis gave me much of the functionality I was trying to implement and configure with the latest release of I2P router installation 0.9.51 on OS X.14.6 using FF 94
Looking forward to more updates for functionality.
Looking forward to more updates for functionality.
26 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13180573, 22 days agoMesses up your firefox profile, even after you uninstall it!
edit: after uninstalling this addon, I had to turn off privacy.resistFingerprinting. There's still a problem where I have no suggestions in the URL bar at all, not even my history or bookmarks. Haven't figured out how to fix that yet. - Rated 1 out of 5by V. Fye, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andreas, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15614831, 7 months agoGarbage written by people who don't mind being harmful parasites. The settings page has invisible fonts in Dark Mode, and it hijacks your profile on EVERY web page instead of just on I2P pages. Use a proxy.pac file instead.
- Rated 1 out of 5by SnowCat, a year agoDon't use it on a configured and used firefox, you will be sorry!
Installing it froze my ffox, and then I was logged out of every site there is, site settings are gone also.
It did ask for LOADS of permissions, but I did not expect it to alter my personal data just by installing it!
Never actually used it because I uninstalled it immediately, and am trying to repair the damage!
Edit: Some settings reset after restarting firefox even after uninstalling this garbage. HOW DO I FIX THIS???? (Zoom, etc gets lost when I close firefox now. It opens in a small window, totally reset every time. And there is not even a firefox setting I can set to stop this)
Edit2: Found the setting that this garbage changes. In about:config change privacy.resistFingerprinting back to false. Lets hope it didn't change any other critical settings. - Rated 1 out of 5by Anonymous user cb81e0, a year agoConstant theme switching is jarring and lags out the browser. In addition, the settings view has white background and white font, rendering it unreadable.
- Rated 5 out of 5by LKR, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by David, 2 years agoThis is an awesome product that seems to keep getting better. Read the negative reviews on this extension. All the complaints are about the features of this product that absolutely should be features of this product.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Jblue, 2 years agoAfter I downloaded the app it says no proxy. I used to use the app before with no issues.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17712529, 2 years agoexcellent software, i like the UI changes because they help me keep track of I2P-related tabs etc. can't thank you enough
- Rated 1 out of 5by fkomarek, 2 years agoThis extension is realy bad. It is working, but it changed my browser theme to white, logout me from some websites like youtube etc., ...
Do not install it, please - Rated 1 out of 5by Tomasz, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by nobody, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Michael N., 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14692199, 2 years agoThe Ugly:
1. Mess your Firefox Profile (sometimes the sandbox)
2. i2p+ homepage blocked
3. Overrides Automatic Proxy Configuration (example: anonsurfpack)
4. Easy fingerprinting and blocking by CloudFront
Many others!
The good:
If you are just starting with i2p and you have a insecure OS, it is better than nothing.
It does have potential!Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi Qubes.
I can't change what version of IceCat ParrotOS packages. I'm not in charge of what they do. If you force it to be installed in a lower Firefox version than what I officially support, I am not responsible for the consequences. Firefox plays nice with the sandbox in newer versions. I suggest you update.
Of course it overrides automatic proxy configuration. It's whole job is to override the proxy configuration for the container tab. If you're hell-bent on nonstandard configuration, then this isn't the extension for you.
As I told you on zzz's forum, there is absolutely nothing I can do about CDN's testing for privacy.resistFingerprinting and blocking people who use it. That is Amazon's fault, not mine. The alternative, *disabling* privacy.resistFingerprinting, is much worse. As I said, I won't endanger other users just because you are having issues with a CDN.
I may make an effort to be more compatible with I2P+, but your other three issues are just as ill-concieved and non-actionable as they were on zzz.i2p.
Previous discussion: http://zzz.i2p/topics/3379-i2p-in-private-browsing-firefox-add-on - Rated 3 out of 5by dangerenok, 3 years agoWhen installing this add-on, the proxy acts on all tabs. I am installing this particular version for PC. At the same time, when installing this add-on, a warning was added to the store that a new version of firefox is needed. This is strange since I have the latest version (95.0.2). I was asked to download the same version for updating.
I understand that this is not normal behavior. I am ready to provide additional information.
System: ArchLinux.
Thank youDeveloper response
posted 3 years agoYou are not the first person who seems to have mystery issues on Arch-based distributions, the version mismatch is especially odd. `"strict_min_version": "91.1.0"` according to my manifest.json file. Something doesn't add up here and I'm not quite sure where to start... I'll ask some questions
- What version of the extension did you install and from where? Getting it from AMO(This site) is the recommended place for now.
- Are you using a Firefox package from Arch, the AUR, or a Mozilla tarball? If an AUR package, which one?
- Are you using a user.js modification set like arkenfox or ghacks? If so, which one? If you have made any changes to it, do any of the differences appear to be relevant?
- Are you automatically enforcing private browsing mode for all sessions?
- Do other multi-account container add-ons work?
- When you right-click on a link, is there an "Open link in new container tab" submenu? Does that submenu contain a label "I2P Browser" with an orange thumbprint next to it? - Rated 3 out of 5by bedwttr, 3 years agoWhen I enable this add-on and use it, the pages that it uses are coloured a deep purple, obscuring the panel. How can I change this? The default them control for the browser doesn't seem to have any effect.
**Update**
Thanks for your response, my reply:
I get that, perhaps it's just worse on my system, [Gnome 41. Debian Testing] but it makes the toolbar unreadable here. A lighter colour would be preferable. I'm using the default theme, BTW.Developer response
posted 3 years agoThis is on purpose, it's intentionally recoloring the tabs in order to provide overt visual indication that the proxy is in use and the settings are being applied. I would be open to choosing a different color if the purple is obstructive, or possibly adding an option which disables the dynamic theming, but removing it entirely is not on the table. This is a feature, not a bug.
**Update**
OK I'll fire up a Gnome machine and re-evaluate some of the colors, that's a really widespread configuration as far as Linuxes go. I'm probably going to do a release late this month, perhaps early January, I expect it will be in by then. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12884452, 3 years agogreat but...when i enable this extension, all my other tabs to other sites are unusable and cant reload. Would be great if someohow this extension sets a container +tab with proxy settings for that tab/container only for i2p? at the moment it looks like when i enable the extension, it basically makes the whole browser {and all tabs as a result} set for i2p via the i2p proxy etc? i initially thought it sets up a container with a tab for i2p only? i didnt have a problem disabling it. i just needed to disable the extension and restart firefox. perhaps the best would be to have two firefox browers and one dedicated with this extension for use for i2p ? but i can seem to be able to install 2 firefox browsers (easily) in linux..unless maybe i use sandboxie or something? thanks in advance for this extension anyway. great work so far,
Developer response
posted 3 years agoAre you reviewing the right extension? There are two versions of this extension, one which is intended only for Android. Since Android is unable to use Container Tabs, the I2P Proxy extension sets the proxy globally and with a separate Firefox is indeed the recommended way to use it. I'd really like to deprecate this version of the extension but until the contextualIdentities API on Android matches the contextualIdentities API on desktop, this second, inferior(Android) extension has to exist. If you have the option, the desktop version is the one which you should be using, and that one is called "I2P in Private Browsing" and is at version "1.26" right now. I don't think there's a way for me to mark the other extension(I2P Proxy for Android and Other Systems) as being installable on Android only, I tried to find one but I don't think it exists.
When I test the release version of the "I2P in Private Browsing" extension the behavior is as you recommend, the "I2P Browser" tab is proxied without any exemptions, dropping localhost addresses, and in the application containers the proxy is applied with a per-app exemption and dropping all non-app localhost addresses. This is exactly as intended as far as I can tell. Moreover my Discord container and my Google containers both work normally, and I don't appear to be using an outproxy to visit the web. I don't know why you would be experience this issue unless you got the Android-only version by accident. - Rated 1 out of 5by HyphenSam, 3 years agoCompletely freezes my browser after installing. Uninstalled it in safe mode, and now I'm signed out of my websites.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoYou are the very first user of this extension to ever describe this behavior. The only thing I can think of that could cause it is another extension competing with it to do some function related to closing and re-opening a tab. Could you please describe for me what other extensions you are using, so that I can attempt to reproduce the issue? - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16610081, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12781392, 4 years agoAfter installation my Gmail in another tab got disconnected. And another website as well. They wanted me to enter my credentials again. :-/
I got scared and uninstalled this extension for now.
I expected that I would get an icon on my FF toolbar for this add-on (which I did) and clicking the icon would open a container tab (whatever it would be) which would allow me to browse thru i2p proxy, or connect to the console. But this interfered with my ordinary tabs instead. :-(
Maybe I did something wrong but don't know what.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThat's not good, it means it's probably not playing nice with other containerizing extensions anymore. This is a bug, and I will fix it soon. Very sorry for the inconvenience. https://i2pgit.org/idk/I2P-in-Private-Browsing-Mode-Firefox/-/issues/32 - Rated 4 out of 5by 2n6, 4 years agoHow do I undo all the changes it made to my browser? I read on i2p website "It does pre-configuration of your browser by enabling some of the privacy Browser Settings like ResistFingerprinting, and enforces WebRTC proxy obedience. It also contains menus, shortcuts, and monitoring tools improving Firefox's integration with I2P. It is a by-product of the I2P Browser project. "
I want to undo this. thank you
edit: thanks for listing the importent ones but can we have a list of all the changes?Developer response
posted 4 years agoUninstalling it will undo most of the changes to your browser(But not the containers themselves yet). The settings that it changes can be found by going to the URL `about:config` and searching for `media.peerconnection` and `privacy.resistFingerprinting`. Make sure that `media.peerconnection.enabled=true` and that `privacy.resistFingerprinting=false`, those are the most important. about:config indicates that non-default settings are in use by putting them in bold type-face. Searching may reveal related settings that were also flipped by the extension. Return them to their default state by clicking the "reset" icon, which is the left-pointing curved arrow on the right-hand side of the page.
Edit Reply:
`browser.contentBlocking.category`
`browser.network.cookieBehavior`
`media.peerconnection.enabled`
`media.peerconnection.ice.no_host`
`media.peerconnection.ice.proxy_only_if_behind_proxy`
`privacy.resistFingerprinting`
`privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing`
`privacy.trackingProtection.enabled`
`privacy.userContext.enabled`
`privacy.userContext.ui.enabled` - Rated 5 out of 5by dbeer68, 4 years ago