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THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS ENTIRELY INCORRECT, PLEASE DISREGARD
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Greetings, I am the developer of Torpark. The person who wrote this did not read any of the multiple warnings I said about modifying Torpark, that Torpark is already optimized, and does not understand the Tor network. Further, if you make one of the modifications he suggests, you are likely to completely lose your anonymity.

1. Torpark does not use a disk cache, only a memory cache. If you reduce the memory cache, that DOES NOT increase your speed or performance, it lowers it. It should be noted that this information is universally true: using less memory makes an efficient program slower, not faster.

2. Torpark is using the Tor network, not a direct internet connection. If you try to enable pipelining, you will reduce your performance over the tor network, as it operates by inline multi-node circuits. You can’t just take rumored tips that speed up firefox for a normal internet connection and apply it to something sophisticated like onion routing.

3. Torpark Switch Proxy Extension is a very bad idea, and entirely redundant. Torpark has been using a proxy button for a while now. All you had to do was look at the manual, that is what the onion button is. I might note that if the writer had actually used the software or read the manual he/she might know this. When you click the Tor onion button, it conveniently lets you know if “Tor enabled” or “Tor disabled” in the status bar of Torpark.

4. Redundant as above. Further, I’ve developed a new software called Torbird, which is thunderbird and tor combined. Further, it links between Torpark and Thunderbird for email and web handling.

Regards,

Steve
Torpark Developer
http://torpark.nfshost.com