>Starting Privoxy</TITLE
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>Privoxy</SPAN
> as a HTTP and HTTPS proxy. The default is
- localhost for the proxy address, and port 8118 (earlier versions used port
- 8000). This is the one configuration step that must be done!</P
+ 127.0.0.1 (or localhost) for the proxy address, and port 8118 (earlier versions
+ used port 8000). This is the one configuration step that must be done!</P
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With <SPAN
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>"Use Proxy"</SPAN
> and fill in the appropriate info (Address:
- localhost, Port: 8118). Include if HTTPS proxy support too.</P
+ 127.0.0.1, Port: 8118). Include if HTTPS proxy support too.</P
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> After doing this, flush your browser's disk and memory caches to force a
re-reading of all pages and to get rid of any ads that may be cached. You
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->5.1. RedHat and Debian</A
+>5.1. RedHat, Conectiva and Debian</A
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>We use a script. Note that RedHat does not start Privoxy upon booting per