Thanks...I was beginning to suspect there was a bigger problem, but I hadn't connected it to 'browserd'. Pretty sure I would never have figured that out. Your about:config method still works...that's what actually got me started looking at the tsocks method. The funny thing is i wasn't that interested in using tsocks with the browser, it just seemed like an easy way to test. I guess that turned out to be a bad choice. Thanks for your help.