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Author: Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 29 09:11:15 2026 +0200
Regenerate FAQ for Privoxy 4.2.0
---
doc/webserver/faq/index.html | 17 +++++----
doc/webserver/faq/installation.html | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/webserver/faq/index.html b/doc/webserver/faq/index.html
index 698b35b9..710d1360 100644
--- a/doc/webserver/faq/index.html
+++ b/doc/webserver/faq/index.html
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
</li>
</ul>
<p>Please note that this document is a work in progress. This copy represents the state at the release of
- version 4.3.0. You can find the latest version of the document at <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/"
+ version 4.2.0. You can find the latest version of the document at <a href="https://www.privoxy.org/faq/"
target="_top">https://www.privoxy.org/faq/</a>. Please see the <a href="contact.html">Contact section</a> if
you want to contact the developers.</p>
</div>
@@ -88,15 +88,16 @@
<dt>2. <a href="installation.html">Installation</a></dt>
<dd>
<dl>
- <dt>2.1. <a href="installation.html#WHICHBROWSERS">Which browsers are supported by Privoxy?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.2. <a href="installation.html#WHICHOS">Which operating systems are supported?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.3. <a href="installation.html#EMAIL-CLIENT">Can I use Privoxy with my email client?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.4. <a href="installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">I just installed Privoxy. Is there anything special I have
+ <dt>2.1. <a href="installation.html#GPGSIGS">How can I confirm the Privoxy installer is genuine?</a></dt>
+ <dt>2.2. <a href="installation.html#WHICHBROWSERS">Which browsers are supported by Privoxy?</a></dt>
+ <dt>2.3. <a href="installation.html#WHICHOS">Which operating systems are supported?</a></dt>
+ <dt>2.4. <a href="installation.html#EMAIL-CLIENT">Can I use Privoxy with my email client?</a></dt>
+ <dt>2.5. <a href="installation.html#FIRSTSTEP">I just installed Privoxy. Is there anything special I have
to do now?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.5. <a href="installation.html#LOCALHOST">What is the proxy address of Privoxy?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.6. <a href="installation.html#NOTHING">I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the
+ <dt>2.6. <a href="installation.html#LOCALHOST">What is the proxy address of Privoxy?</a></dt>
+ <dt>2.7. <a href="installation.html#NOTHING">I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the
ads are there. What's wrong?</a></dt>
- <dt>2.7. <a href="installation.html#NOTUSED">I get a <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being used"</span>
+ <dt>2.8. <a href="installation.html#NOTUSED">I get a <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being used"</span>
dummy page although Privoxy is running and being used.</a></dt>
</dl>
</dd>
diff --git a/doc/webserver/faq/installation.html b/doc/webserver/faq/installation.html
index 50d689df..6467ba4c 100644
--- a/doc/webserver/faq/installation.html
+++ b/doc/webserver/faq/installation.html
@@ -27,7 +27,55 @@
<div class="SECT1">
<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="INSTALLATION" id="INSTALLATION">2. Installation</a></h1>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHBROWSERS" id="WHICHBROWSERS">2.1. Which browsers are supported by
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="GPGSIGS" id="GPGSIGS">2.1. How can I confirm the Privoxy installer is
+ genuine?</a></h3>
+ <p>Each binary installation package is GPG signed by the relevant packager, using detached .asc signature files,
+ as follows: <tt class="LITERAL">gpg --armor --output installer.sig --detach-sig installer</tt> To verify that the
+ installer file has not been modified since it was built, use GPG to check that it cryptographically matches the
+ signature, as follows: <tt class="LITERAL">gpg --verify installer.sig installer</tt> The output of this command
+ will identify the email address of the packager, alongside the fingerprint of their public GPG key. The current
+ packagers are as follows:</p>
+ <div class="TABLE">
+ <a name="AEN294" id="AEN294"></a>
+ <p><b>Table 1. Privoxy binary packagers</b></p>
+ <table border="1" frame="border" rules="all" class="CALSTABLE">
+ <col>
+ <col>
+ <col>
+ <col>
+ <thead>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Operating System</th>
+ <th>Packager Name</th>
+ <th>Packager Email</th>
+ <th>Packager Public Key Fingerprint</th>
+ </tr>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td>FreeBSD</td>
+ <td>Fabian Keil</td>
+ <td>fk at fabiankeil.de</td>
+ <td>4F36C17F3816913654A1E850691822918BA2371C</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>Debian Linux</td>
+ <td>Roland Rosenfeld</td>
+ <td>roland at spinnaker.de</td>
+ <td>AC2FBDB104943D8A44A0211D02713BCFCA5410B2</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>macOS</td>
+ <td>Ian Silvester</td>
+ <td>iansilvester at fastmail.fm</td>
+ <td>558FCF92D02E6325E6C89E8DD9A17F79A285F0C7</td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="SECT2">
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHBROWSERS" id="WHICHBROWSERS">2.2. Which browsers are supported by
Privoxy?</a></h3>
<p>Any browser that can be configured to use a proxy, which should be virtually all browsers, including
<span class="APPLICATION">Firefox</span>, <span class="APPLICATION">Internet Explorer</span>, <span class=
@@ -36,7 +84,7 @@
talks to the browser in the standardized HTTP protocol, just like a web server does.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHOS" id="WHICHOS">2.2. Which operating systems are supported?</a></h3>
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="WHICHOS" id="WHICHOS">2.3. Which operating systems are supported?</a></h3>
<p>At present, <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions (98, ME,
2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11 etc.), GNU/Linux (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo,
Slackware and others), Mac OS X (10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku, DragonFly, ElectroBSD,
@@ -46,8 +94,8 @@
issues. <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">It is preferable to build the latest code to target earlier OS
releases than use an earlier Privoxy release</i></span>:</p>
<div class="TABLE">
- <a name="AEN303" id="AEN303"></a>
- <p><b>Table 1. Operating system support for binaries provided by Privoxy team members</b></p>
+ <a name="AEN333" id="AEN333"></a>
+ <p><b>Table 2. Operating system support for binaries provided by Privoxy team members</b></p>
<table border="1" frame="border" rules="all" class="CALSTABLE">
<col>
<col>
@@ -80,17 +128,17 @@
</tr>
<tr>
<td>macOS</td>
- <td>3.0.33</td>
+ <td>4.2.0</td>
<td>El Capitan (10.11.6)</td>
<td>Snow Leopard (10.6.1)</td>
<td>Intel 64 bit</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
- <td>3.0.26</td>
- <td>El Capitan (10.11.6), Tiger (10.4.1) PPC</td>
- <td>Tiger (10.4.1)</td>
- <td>Intel 32 & 64 bit, PowerPC</td>
+ <td>4.2.0</td>
+ <td>Tahoe (26.5.1)</td>
+ <td>Big Sur (11.0.0)</td>
+ <td>Apple Silicon</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
@@ -103,7 +151,7 @@
compiling for older versions of supported operating systems.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="EMAIL-CLIENT" id="EMAIL-CLIENT">2.3. Can I use Privoxy with my email client?</a></h3>
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="EMAIL-CLIENT" id="EMAIL-CLIENT">2.4. Can I use Privoxy with my email client?</a></h3>
<p>As long as there is some way to set a HTTP proxy for the client, then yes, any application can be used,
whether it is strictly speaking a <span class="QUOTE">"browser"</span> or not. Though this may not be the best
approach for dealing with some of the common abuses of HTML in email. See <a href=
@@ -114,7 +162,7 @@
to plain text for these reasons.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FIRSTSTEP" id="FIRSTSTEP">2.4. I just installed Privoxy. Is there anything special I
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="FIRSTSTEP" id="FIRSTSTEP">2.5. I just installed Privoxy. Is there anything special I
have to do now?</a></h3>
<p>All browsers should be told to use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy by specifying the
correct proxy address and port number in the appropriate configuration area for the browser. It's possible to
@@ -126,7 +174,7 @@
"_top">cookies</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LOCALHOST" id="LOCALHOST">2.5. What is the proxy address of Privoxy?</a></h3>
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="LOCALHOST" id="LOCALHOST">2.6. What is the proxy address of Privoxy?</a></h3>
<p>If you set up the <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> to run on the computer you browse from (rather than
your ISP's server or some networked computer on a LAN), the proxy will be on <tt class="LITERAL">127.0.0.1</tt>
(sometimes referred to as <span class="QUOTE">"localhost"</span>, which is the special name used by every
@@ -146,7 +194,7 @@
IRC, ICQ, etc.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTHING" id="NOTHING">2.6. I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTHING" id="NOTHING">2.7. I just installed Privoxy, and nothing is happening. All the
ads are there. What's wrong?</a></h3>
<p>Did you configure your browser to use <span class="APPLICATION">Privoxy</span> as a proxy? It does not sound
like it. See above. You might also try flushing the browser's caches to force a full re-reading of pages. You can
@@ -164,7 +212,7 @@
Manual</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="SECT2">
- <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTUSED" id="NOTUSED">2.7. I get a <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being
+ <h3 class="SECT2"><a name="NOTUSED" id="NOTUSED">2.8. I get a <span class="QUOTE">"Privoxy is not being
used"</span> dummy page although Privoxy is running and being used.</a></h3>
<p>First, make sure that Privoxy is <span class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">really</i></span> running and
being used by visiting <a href="http://p.p/" target="_top">http://p.p/</a>. You should see the <span class=
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