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

[paulrcc at hushmail.com]

On 02/19/2014 at 10:40 PM, "Daniel Kahn Gillmor"  wrote: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
No, I did no proxy configuration. I just installed Firefox with HTTPS
Everywhere and when the plugin is enabled my firewall detects
connections to 127.0.0.1:9050.
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