[HTTPS-Everywhere] Why is HTTPS-Everywhere trying to connect to 127.0.0.1:9050?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 02/19/2014 08:41 AM, paulrcc at hushmail.com wrote:
> I use Firefox plugin and I detected connections to localhost:9050 when
> HTTPS-Everywhere plugin is enabled. When plugin is disabled, this does
> not occur. Observatory is disabled.

localhost:9050 is a common port for the system tor socks proxy to run
on.  Are you sure you didn't also do some sort of tor configuration or
reconfigure your proxy settings around the same time as installing
https-everywhere?

	--dkg

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