Configuring Tor to Work in Other Web Browsers

I am trying to configure my internet options so I can use the Tor servers in another browser, specifically Internet Explorer. Yes, I know this is not recommended and it’s an old browser, but I need to do this because my web scraping software only allows for this. Having said that, changing the internet options in Internet Explorer does impact other browsers, too.

So, the steps I’ve taken thus far are as follows:

1. Downloaded Tor and the Windows Expert Bundle from the official
   website and installed both.
2. In Command Prompt I ran tor.exe --HTTPTunnelPort 8118 (following the
   advice I found at
   "This is a SOCKS Proxy, Not An HTTP Proxy").
3. I went into Internet Explorer >>> Internet options >>> Connections
   and set the proxy ports. See the image below for my setup.

What I found was that HTTPS sites work but HTTP ones don’t. I get the following error message when I navigate to a HTTP website: “This is an HTTP CONNECT tunnel, not an HTTP proxy.”

When I go to https://check.torproject.org/, it says: “Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.”

So it looks like it’s working up to a certain point, but I don’t know why HTTP sites do not work.