Tor only provides TCP layer anonymity.  It does not do any protocol
cleaning, so if you are going to browse the web you still give away a
lot of information to servers.

The polipo package provides a caching web proxy that does http
pipelining well, so it's well-suited for Tor's latencies.  To view the
description of the Debian polipo package just run "apt-cache show
polipo".  Please refer to the polipo documentation for more details.

In order to use polipo over tor, the configuration recommended by the
Tor project is available at:

  https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf

On a Debian system, this file is intended to be put at /etc/polipo/config.

Torbutton is configured to use Polipo by default.  If you choose to use
Tor directly (which is not recommended), you can uncheck "Use Polipo" in
the preferences.
