Re: [gentoo-user] TOR-Browser Bundle: And the rest was silence...

Willie Matthews <matthews.willie80@×××××.com> [16-02-08 06:04]:
> On 02/06/2016 10:08 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I got a interesting problem:
> >
> > When using Firefox 44, I can watch Videos for
> > example from YouTube and can hear the audio.
> >
> > When using the newest TOR-Browser bundle, videos
> > are playing fine...but without any sound.
> >
> > I have no clue, what happens here.
> >
> > Any help to fix that is very appreciated...
> > thank you very much in advance!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Meino
> >
> >
> >
>
> It is a lot easier to use the tor network by installing net-misc/tor and
> setting up the proxy on whatever browser you use.
>
> For instance I use Chrome. I setup a shortcut on my desktop that gives
> me a a new incognito window that is using the proxy for all connections
> and the /tmp/chrome directory for the user directory.
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Name=Chrome with Tor
> Comment=Start Chrome with Tor
> Exec=google-chrome-beta --incognito
> --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:9050" --user-data-dir="/tmp/chrome/"
> Icon=google-chrome-unstable
> Path=
> Terminal=false
> StartupNotify=false
>
> I haven't had any problems using it this way so far. I hope that you
> will have the same results.
>
> --
>
> Willie Matthews
> matthews.willie80@×××××.com
>



Hi Willie,

regarding the audio problem: Do you play video via Adobe flash
(or any other Flash) player or do you use HTML5 (or any other
different than Flash) ?


Best regards,
Meino