I2P-in-Private-Browsing-Mode-Firefox VS i2p.plugins.firefox

This is browser storage, and has nothing to do with I2P. I can't help you if you're using a misconfigured browser. If you are concerned about managing browser storage, I have half a dozen applications which can help you do this in a modern, portable, routine and secure way. I suggest using this one. Alternatively, This one. If you insist on doing it yourself, enjoy all the reading.

The Firefox extension depends on the presence of the I2P router, it does not include an I2P router itself. That information is the top line of the extension website. It is also available in the description on the Mozilla Addons Page. The extension won't work without a running I2P router. Installing it without an I2P router is pointless.

I am almost fully convinced that understanding this question better is the most important thing I can do for I2P, because answering it in in various forms has been my primary occupation for nearly five years now and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface. I did eventually run out of links though. As u/DivaExchange and u/psychonaut3333 pointed out, there is a learning process here and I would add that I don't believe it has a clear end. We're just a network, you can do almost any network thing with I2P. If we don't clearly cover your use case, talk to us about it.

I'm looking for people interested in helping me out, and there's space for non-coders too! I've started translating it in earnest, I need people to translate the extension and report untranslated parts. Android hackers who want to help me get it ported to Firefox for Android can help me figure out how to make containers work. Please get in touch with me on gitlab or github if you're interested in contributing(Gitlab preferred). Chromium hackers can help port features to the Chrome Version.

What everybody else has said is true, no, you can't tell Firefox's HTTPS enforcement padlock "you're using I2P, don't worry about HTTPS." But you CAN write your own padlock on the opposite side of the panel and use it to display equivalent messaging for equivalent I2P scenarios. Which, hopefully surprising less people by the day, I've already done: https://github.com/eyedeekay/I2P-in-Private-Browsing-Mode-Firefox/blob/master/i2p-https.png

You have two options: If Transmission has SOCKS support you may be able to configure it with an I2P SOCKS proxy, or you can use "I2PSnark-RPC" to turn i2psnark into a transmission-rpc API service, and connect a transmission client to it. You can get i2psnark-rpc from zzz's stats.i2p plugin archive or from my clearnet mirror.

Lots. One very important one is that they leave media.peerconnection in a non-proxy-obedient state. Mozilla provides an API for configuring this behavior, which I use here: https://github.com/eyedeekay/I2P-in-Private-Browsing-Mode-Firefox/blob/master/privacy.js, or you can see https://i2pgit.org/i2p-hackers/i2p.firefox for our preferred set of hardening tactics for general users. As you can see, the modifications are pretty extensive.

Firefox-based is much better than Chromium-based in the majority of ways. https://eyedeekay.github.io/I2P-in-Private-Browsing-Mode-Firefox/, https://eyedeekay.github.io/I2P-Configuration-For-Chromium/ and it is very easy to tell the difference between Chromium's and Firefox. If you are using Chromium, you are more unique to more people.

I use Firefox with the I2P In Private Browsing webextension for mixing I2P and clearnet browsing in the same browser, and I use i2p.plugins.firefox for I2P-only browsing.

The only package that directly incorporates an I2P-specific browser profile is the Easy-Install for Windows. To get an I2P-focused profile manager as a Debian package, you can use https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox/releases/download/1.0.9/i2pbrowser_1.0.9_amd64.deb. This is exactly the same profile manager code as the Easy-Install bundle, but it is decoupled from the I2P router itself. To make the router launch it for you, add routerconsole.browser=/opt/i2pbrowser/bin/i2pbrowser to your router.config file.

If you want the benefits of the Easy-Install on your existing Classic install, your best option is to use a console plugin IMO. You can download: https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox/releases/download/1.0.8/i2pfirefox.su3 and install it using the interface on: http://localhost:7657/configplugins after installing there's a period where profiles are unpacked, configs are updated, and the proxy is checked after which you'll see a Firefox browser window open which is configured to use I2P, and a second menu in your System Tray which you can use to manage browsing sessions.

There's also a freestanding I2P Firefox profile manager that does the same thing without managing your I2P session and does not require the easy-install, https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox.

The hard way is to create a browser.config file which can be read by the Easy-Install bundle. This file contains a list of browser names and paths to search for those names in. An example browser.config file can be found at my github: https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox/blob/main/browser.config, by removing all irrelevant(non-Firefox, non-Windows entries) you may configure your Easy-Install bundle to use Firefox instead.

wget https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox/releases/download/1.0.8/i2pbrowser.tar.gz

You can either use an entirely separate browser profile, like with the Easy-Install Bundle for Windows and i2p.plugins.firefox, or you can use a container tab under your main Firefox session.

Of these, Tor Browser requires the least modification, but Firefoxes can be made into a state where they are suitable for most browsing and some otherwise important purposes. That is why I favor using a profile manager which prioritizes Tor Browser and Firefox variant compatibility like https://github.com/eyedeekay/i2p.plugins.firefox

This is browser storage, and has nothing to do with I2P. I can't help you if you're using a misconfigured browser. If you are concerned about managing browser storage, I have half a dozen applications which can help you do this in a modern, portable, routine and secure way. I suggest using this one. Alternatively, This one. If you insist on doing it yourself, enjoy all the reading.

The releases of i2p.plugins.firefox are available on Github for now.