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Tor Browser 6.0 is released

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Anonymous (not verified) said:

first

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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i am getting an error right

i am getting an error right now, never had this problem before. tor crashes right now, but worked a few hours ago.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: firefox.exe
Application Version: 45.1.1.0
Application Timestamp: 00000000
Fault Module Name: MSVCR120.dll
Fault Module Version: 12.0.21005.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 524f7ce6
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00013b0b
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 4d1c
Additional Information 2: 4d1ccb1f086e8f68af5ebd400b9240a6
Additional Information 3: a773
Additional Information 4: a7738b1c9bfdec77d1b26715e67e5bda

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:
C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Oh, now TBB uses both

Oh, now TBB uses both msvcr100 & 120. GeKo, what you've done?

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Nothing. So, 5.5.5. is still

Nothing. So, 5.5.5. is still working flawless but 6.0 crashes? Could you test that? https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/5.5.5/

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I have a similar problem. I

I have a similar problem. I installed the latest version, and it will not run. I see the Tor icon appear and disappear in the task master.

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I've opened

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I've got the same issue..

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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After auto updating to

After auto updating to version 6.0, TPB terribly slow, get to open only one first site, and then after a time. Then everything usually hangs. I use an old WinXP. Updating the TPB is disabled, and still the browser hangs. Firewall Comodo Free.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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With POSReady updates?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Tor 6.0 & the latest Beta

Tor 6.0 & the latest Beta (6.0a5) won't start. W10x64 Pro non-domain.
Have tried different folders, removed and re-ran but the browser just won't open. Disabling AVG makes no difference. Tried running as admin but didn't make any difference. Restarted system, removed FireFox and so on but still won't open. Some previous versions still work but could do with prominent links to previous versions as I don't like using a really old version.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Please, remove all security

Please, remove all security crappy software first. And check that its "drivers" were removed too. Then install a new copy of TBB to c:\ and test.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I have the same issue since

I have the same issue since version 6.0 came out. 6.1 is the same.

The older version 5.x ran fine. I even reinstalled 5.5 and it was fine until I let it update itself, then it wouldnt start

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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i had the same problem

i had the same problem remove trusteer rapport the banking software now no problems connecting

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Can you please provide a way

Can you please provide a way to disable xpinstall.signatures.required again? This is really sad. I need to use two add-ons I know very well and cannot update to Tor 6.0 because of this. I understand that you focus on security but if the users know what they are doing, you should allow them to decide. Thanks in advance.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Thank You! :)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Oh, god. It's finally here.

Oh, god. It's finally here. Guys, arm yourselves of cool and patience and prepare for the incoming horde of complaints about upstream changes. (I myself don't know what am I going to do with the new search bar nonsense. )

Anyhow, thanks a lot, Tor Browser team! :)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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The addon Classic Theme

The addon Classic Theme Restorer has an option to revert to the old search bar (and to revert tons of other stuff to how they were before)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Thanks. I know about CTR and

Thanks. I know about CTR and I use it on Ice Cat. However, I don't like to install extra addons on Tor Browser, especially so when we are talking about big addons, like CTR.

I think I might eventually try to extract just that feature from CTR and create a new tiny addon so that I can confidently put it in Tor Browser.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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It could be better to

It could be better to completely remove all the junk Mozilla put in FF (pocket/hello/addon mandatory signing/new GUI/) from TBB.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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. please, remove all that

. please, remove all that junk ( making my life happy again ! )

Anonymous (not verified) said:

"" [Disconnect] has no

"" [Disconnect] has no access to Google search results..""
for direct with google & more.. Leme suggest this:
> http://polycola.com/
captchas rarely appears :)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Dear SysOp :) "too old

Dear SysOp :)
"too old title, but can't think of any thing else right now" :))

thanks for posting the link on my above comment,

Question, pls answer,,

case1, did u test/track the link and found its helpful to agree-to-post?
OR
2-just posting that comment as-is without testing?

what difference that makes!?

in case 1: to me it means (like) if the comment is "credited" from TBB for my behalf, and that site might mean even-better than what i thought,,
LoL
waiting. bye,

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Thanks for this awesome

Thanks for this *awesome* job !

One thing: when restarting after upgrade, TorBrowser did not take care of the window size. ie: it started taking all my screen, and not the usual size.

Restarted TBB again, and everything seems fine.

Thanks again for this awesome number of fixes :o

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Important I think this new

*Important*

I think this new version (6.0) is dangerously giving away the user's screen resolution when JavaScript is enabled (the default behavior).

New behavior (you can easily test this on the console):

Old behavior (this is the "right behavior", where window size and screen resolution the same and standardized):

Juan Nada
0xA053222C47796683

In reply to *Important* I think this new by Anonymous (not verified)

Well, you can test what real

Well, you can test what real websites are seeing if they try to extract the above values by visiting http://browserspy.dk/screen.php. And there I still see the rounded values with a fresh 6.0 on a Windows 7 box for example.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

You're right: real websites

You're right: real websites only can access the standardized Tor window size values. Only browser pages (like blank or about:tor) are showing the real resolution values.

That's one odd behavior compared to previous versions, but it is not giving away the revolution as I was supposing before. I checked with https://www.browserleaks.com/javascript

As unrelated notes:

Linux users still can be detected, although the default TBB userAgent string is set to Windows. Link: https://www.browserleaks.com/firefox
Connections to .onion websites are still marked as "Not Secure", as any other HTTP page.
Tor 6.0 is beautifully fast, stable and predictable.

Juan Nada
0xA053222C47796683

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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We can prevent the leak.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I have run tests with a

I have run tests with a fresh copy of Tor Browser 6 on Windows Vista. With JavaScript enabled http://browserspy.dk/screen.php returns exact window dimensions not rounded values. http://ip-check.info also returns exact values even when JavaScript is disabled.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I've released the core code

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I had the same happen, it's

I had the same happen, it's not really an issue.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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not an issue? You must be

not an issue? You must be kidding.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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It is handled differently

It is handled differently see: Bug 18958: Spoof screen.orientation values - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18958

Firefox about:config Additional Privacy, Security and Anonymity Settings,

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Dowloading now, I hope

Dowloading now, I hope Youtube is fixed.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Dowloading now, I hope by Anonymous (not verified)

you can't watch youtube on

you can't watch youtube on Tor browser.

In reply to you can't watch youtube on by Anonymous (not verified)

Works fine for me on my

Works fine for me on my Linux box.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

With High Security Level the

With High Security Level the experience is awful: no controls & timeline in player, timeline doesn't work, no way to enable/disable html5 video in NoScript menu, but it starts to play without permission!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Is this more bleeding edge

Is this more bleeding edge then 6.0a5?
I would think so right?

In reply to Is this more bleeding edge by Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, there is nothing more

Yes, there is nothing more bleeding edge than this one right now. :)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Awesome! Updating via Tor

Awesome! Updating via Tor Browser's auto-updater as we speak.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

anyway, thanks for this

anyway, thanks for this update..

can't figure-out privacy under "Tor enabled" (green icon), in compliance with NoScript + click to play!!
so tired playing mouse & cat with that combination!

disabling something will disable most unwanted-to,
as will as when..
enabling something will enable other most unwanted-to!

How to enable ALL scripts in every site WHiLE that WiLL NEVER run a Video/Audio .period.

never play V/A without intending-to (eg. click to play).

Anonymous (not verified) said:

which should mean a better

which should mean a better support for HTML5 video on Youtube, as well as

You broke sound in youtube. Videos stop during playing (network problem), after pause video continues, but without sound. I need to reload the same video 10 times to get it played up to the end. This is just one of examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSq7oxM_fyo However, I see this problem on most of videos. Previous stable TBB worked fine.

In reply to which should mean a better by Anonymous (not verified)

Works fine for me right now.

Works fine for me right now. What system are you using? And, well, there is nothing Tor Browser can do regarding the network problem(s) you encountered.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Linux amd64. I found one

Linux amd64. I found one hack to repair sound: if it stopped (video then contunies to play but without sound), just click on next timemoment (like plus few seconds in video), and then sound appears. Otherwise, video will be played after interruption, but without sound.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

A lot of "Network error" in

A lot of "Network error" in Browser Console are not so harmless: some of them interrupt the video or make it play from the beginning!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Hmm, with my settings it

Hmm, with my settings it works fine, but if TBB isn't fast enough to load the next video chunk, then the video starts from the beginning.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Oh hell yea! This must mean

Oh hell yea! This must mean that Subresource Integrity is now supported, since that came in Firefox 43. This means that webpage authors can hash any included CSS or JS and include the hash in the webpage. If the downloaded file has a different hash, the browser won't load it.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Potentially quite bad for

Potentially quite bad for fingerprinting/privacy in terms of linking website visits together..

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I agree. I wonder if

I agree. I wonder if anyone has looked at this Firefox feature (not TBB feature) from a user privacy perspective. It also seems like the sort of thing that could potentially be used to block NoScript surrogate scripts depending on where it's implemented.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Great. Thanks.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Fantastic, but Avast

Fantastic, but Avast Antivirus cosiders Tor malware and is blocking it.

In reply to Fantastic, but Avast by Anonymous (not verified)

Sounds like another case

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Fantastic, but Avast by Anonymous (not verified)

use Linux Mint or other

use Linux Mint or other Linux destro

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Fantastic, but Avast by Anonymous (not verified)

AVG did the same and is

AVG did the same and is labeling tor browser 6.0 a Trojan horse. Completely deleted tor browser with all my bookmarks/settings.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I use Avast free 2016 and no

I use Avast free 2016 and no virus warning even though the settings I use will give more false positives. In the past Avast did sometimes considered Tor to be malware but that was not often.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Tangentially related to Tor

Tangentially related to Tor upgrades: If anyone from Agora is reading this, thousands of people are begging for your return. Even if you can't come back right now but still have plans, we beg of you to make a single Reddit post giving a timeline. Please.

And kudos to the Tor team as well for all their hard work, of course. :-)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

It was about 160MB before

It was about 160MB before updating and now 217MB. Is it normal? Updated using auto-updater.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to It was about 160MB before by Anonymous (not verified)

good question! :) but if

but if that -may- mean: it will leave your OS with lil' or no-more RAM, then leme suggest u this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/memory-fox-next/

i still use it,
thou the RAM available in my OS after running TBB= 1.Gb

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Please don't suggest

Please don't suggest installing addons in Tor Browser without giving a security/privacy warning.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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gk, updater.exe leaves

gk, updater.exe leaves updater.mar (33 MiB) in folder, and no update history is shown (but it is in updates.xml). Looks like update process stalls at NS_main: unable to remove directory: tobedeleted, err: 41

In reply to gk, updater.exe leaves by Anonymous (not verified)

Hm. Did the updates work

Hm. Did the updates work before? Or is it the first time you are updating Tor Browser?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Again: history of updates in

Again: history of updates in Options isn't showed now, but it is in updates.xml file (since 5.0.7)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Don't use Windows 10 if

Don't use Windows 10 if you're concerned about privacy use vpn instead. If you want to use Tor, boot your computer into a Tails live system.
VPNs: http://www.bestvpnprovider.com/china-vpn

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Don't use Windows 10 if by Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks for the info, may you

Thanks for the info,
may you please pin-point (without much details)
what risk in using TBB +W10?!

Thought TBB will "isolate" us from ANY risk.. no matter WHAT OS is!

note, if anyone aware what this user is talking about, then pls enlighten us.
(( that if he didn't answer "for any of his own reasons" ))

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Because Windows 10 logs

Because Windows 10 logs everything you type on the keyboard, doesn't matter if you're using TBB or not: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2974057/windows/how-to-turn-off-windows-…

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Because Windows 10 logs by Anonymous (not verified)

Check this out: KeyScrambler

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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it is closed source os. only

it is closed source os. only ms knows how much holes they insert to satisfy nsa friends. remember microsoft icons bug?
"Thought TBB will "isolate" us from ANY risk.. no matter WHAT OS is!" - where did you get such a strange ads?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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LoL,, "isolate"

LoL,,
"isolate" huh!
remember when waving 2 fingers in each hand?
to resemble the 2 above marks!

although, TBB -alomost- "isolate" us,
BUT still --truly-- it is (&will be) far better than closest comparative.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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lol guys talk bout windows

lol guys talk bout windows here

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Don't use Windows 10 if by Anonymous (not verified)

Sure, Tor Browser on Windows

Sure, Tor Browser on Windows 10 is rather pointless for most use cases of tor.

. How exactly is a VPN any better? You're still going to leak the same info. If you've got to use Windows 10 securely, I'd suggest using it behind a firewall that blocks access to most/all of Microsoft. Then you can use Tor Browser without fear (at least from Win10's tracking.)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Since updating the browser

Since updating the browser won't even open. Have deleted and redownloaded. Same.

In reply to Since updating the browser by Anonymous (not verified)

Which operating system are

Which operating system are you using? Are there error messages you get? If so, which ones?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I am using windows 10 and

I am using windows 10 and since updating TOR won't even start. Nothing at all seems to be happening. I am really disappointed and wish the update had not been done

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Same here

In reply to Same here by Anonymous (not verified)

Which kind of firewall/anti

Which kind of firewall/anti virus software are you running? Could you uninstall it for testing whether it is interfering with Tor Browser (which is the likely cause of your problem)?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I disabled ESET Smart

I disabled ESET Smart Security and disabled the firewall too but it has had no effect. TOR browser still does nothing at all

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Same here by Anonymous (not verified)

I am getting error, Tor

I am getting error, Tor Browser crashes on bootup. Di with update and fresh install of 6. Windows 7 here

In reply to I am getting error, Tor by Anonymous (not verified)

Which error are you getting?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

6.0a5 doesn't auto-update to

6.0a5 doesn't auto-update to this, I assume this is by design, different channel?

Or will there be an update available to that browser soon? Either to 6.0 or other?

Thanks for this release.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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Heh, gk, it's worth

Heh, gk, it's worth mentioning that it's better to update alpha channel first (even with new stable when you do it without new alpha) to avoid stupid questions like this ,)

In reply to 6.0a5 doesn't auto-update to by Anonymous (not verified)

There will be a new alpha

There will be a new alpha release (and a new stable too) based on the next firefox ESR release (45.2) which is planned for the 7th of June.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

any idea WHY

any idea WHY the-ONLY-second/(&last) good-thing in InternetExplorer is the clear-shinny-contrast fonts than TBB?

Top image is TBB vs. 2nd=ie

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to any idea WHY by Anonymous (not verified)

And the hinting is quite a

And the hinting is quite a lot better in the top picture (uniform stem widths, smoother curves, symmetrical characters are symmetrical), not to mention the color fringes due to overexaggerated subpixel effect in the bottom picture. So I'm not seeing a problem here.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

When making audio/video

When making audio/video elements click-to-play (medium-low settings and higher), and loading such an element directly, the resource starts loading and after a short period gets blocked by noscript.

This is a regression from previous versions, no?

In reply to When making audio/video by Anonymous (not verified)

Maybe. My first guess would

Maybe. My first guess would be that you are hitting https://bugs.torproject.org/19200. But then the "after a short period gets blocked by noscript" part makes me suspicious. Do you have steps to reproduce your issue? On which operating system does this happen?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Try any video here, for

Try any video here, for example: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2016/mini-debconf-vienna/webm/. I just tested it on Linux/x86_64, but if noscript is the culprit, this could affect everyone, The changelog for v. 2.9.0.10 says: "fixed placeholder activation in Gecko 45 and above". I'll take a look.

In reply to Try any video here, for by Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks, this is

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to When making audio/video by Anonymous (not verified)

No, this crap rarely appears

No, this crap rarely appears in the previous version too :(

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to No, this crap rarely appears by Anonymous (not verified)

that explains what

that explains what "sufferings" my limited-internet-package will face!

i don't mind if it's direct -unlimited- DSL connection,
search my above comment (Cat) & (mouse) game :)
this update seems "great"
thou, preferred previous TBB

Anonymous (not verified) said:

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I -almost- "solved" it.. say

I -almost- "solved" it.. say 90%

that if the problem Re: Video/Audio..

comment-back to write u the steps

Anonymous (not verified) said:

TBB6.0 has an error,

TBB6.0 has an error, TBB5.5.5 has not:

i can customize a lot -set/unset Preferences,about:config- in TBB6.0, but when i erase

the Customize menu, for drag and drop Tool/Feature-icons, is blank.
Please fix it.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Is there currently no way to

Is there currently no way to view my cookies?

Tor Button used to have a nice list where I could "protect" certain cookies and have them last across sessions, while others were ephemeral. Is that feature gone for good?

Also, recent previous versions of Tor Browser have no had a "show cookies" button in the standard place firefox does (unless I'm mistaken?) but this new version does have the button. Unfortunately, it shows a window with no cookies.

This is particularly misleading! Many Tor Browser users I've talked to assume that Tor Browser completely "disables cookies". Showing them an empty list of cookies reenforces this incorrect belief.

Thanks for all your hard work! Other than the cookie thing this seems like a great release.

In reply to Is there currently no way to by Anonymous (not verified)

This is still blocked by an

This is still blocked by an Mozilla upstream bug. We track that in https://bugs.torproject.org/10353.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I find it vexing that

I find it vexing that Mozilla hasn't fixed this for so darn long..

Anonymous (not verified) said:

https://panopticlick.eff.org

https://panopticlick.eff.org : your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint :(

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to https://panopticlick.eff.org by Anonymous (not verified)

From the same site I get 1

From the same site I get 1 in 1000 +/- on a Win7 system, which is slightly worse than 5.5. I am back to 10+ bits from 7. something on 5.5. I do understand that this is not an absolute benchmark for anonymity neither do I know exactly what causes the measure to go up or down, or even if EFF has retained the same benchmark measures it used 1-2 months ago.

In reply to https://panopticlick.eff.org by Anonymous (not verified)

You might

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to arma

why would anyone here enjoy

why would anyone here enjoy having to identify themselves with their email to post anythin, especially on a site that it refuses post even when a REAL email is used?

You go post this answer because your system wouldn't let me!

"When 5.5 and 5.5.5 came out I updated within hours or less and went to panopticlick and I was amazed at the improvement. I must have been one of the first few and it was down to 5xx something. With 6 it is more than double. I redownloaded 5.5.5 again and it is still the same rating I got back . a month or more ago. So your theory does not hold water. eff can't tell what browser you are using in specific just a version of FF and your OS.

One thing to watch for is your plugins, most will reveal identity information (identifiers) which group you with users with same FF plugins.

Based on the same use though why would 6 be inferior to 5.5.5?"

Anonymous (not verified) said:

The newtab icon is . extrem

The newtab icon is . extrem . persistent. You can't set a blank screen.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

why on earth is OCSP still

why on earth is OCSP still enabled? please see https://noisebridge.net/OCSP and strongly consider disabling it in the next release!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to why on earth is OCSP still by Anonymous (not verified)

Tor Browser uses OCSP

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Tor Browser uses OCSP by Anonymous (not verified)

But doesn't it still contact

But doesn't it still contact OCSP servers in the (very common) case that the HTTPS server doesn't include an OCSP response in the TLS handshake?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

ctrl-shift-U (the shortcut

ctrl-shift-U (the shortcut key for new identity) is already used in GTK applications for unicode character entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input#In_X11_.28Linux_and_other_U…

as such, the new identity keyboard shortcut only works when the cursor is not in a text input area.

In reply to ctrl-shift-U (the shortcut by Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks, this is

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Help. I cannot change the

Help. I cannot change the Preferences settings and can't get move between any of the options. I'm using a Mac 10.8.5.

In reply to Help. I cannot change the by Anonymous (not verified)

What are you trying to do?

What are you trying to do? Can you give steps to reproduce your problem?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

just upgraded to v6 this

just upgraded to v6 this morning and nothing happens when i run the shortcut. have been using tor browser for the last 7 or so versions with no issues. my system is windows 7 64 bit. have tried running as Administrator, disabling firewall, and antivirus with no joy. please help

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to just upgraded to v6 this by Anonymous (not verified)

uninstall tor

uninstall tor completely
then install tor version 6
and will work like charm

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to uninstall tor by Anonymous (not verified)

tyvm for the reply. as far

tyvm for the reply. as far as i can tell the installation is self contained in the one directory and not in the registry? there was no uninstall that i could find. Tor Browser isnt listed in Programs. I did delete the upgraded Tor Browser directory and ran the install again..still no joy. apologies if im missing something obvious

Anonymous (not verified) said:

ok i just installed v6 to

ok i just installed v6 to new directory after upgraded directory would not load Tor Browser. the new directory install also will not load. no processes for firefox or tor shows up in my windows 7 64 bit system.

In reply to ok i just installed v6 to by Anonymous (not verified)

Do you get any error

Do you get any error messages? Have you tried removing your antivirus and firewall software for testing purposes? It happens that merely disabling them is not enough.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

no error messages anywhere.

no error messages anywhere. i have not tried uninstalling antivirus and firewall yet. just a bit peeved to have to do this as multiple previous versions have worked fine without this step. not complaining just maybe a little lazy

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Will you make 64-bit Windows

Will you make 64-bit Windows build?

In reply to Will you make 64-bit Windows by Anonymous (not verified)

Not with the ESR45 based

Not with the ESR45 based series. We plan to do that for the next ESR (i.e 52), though.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

What are system requeriments

What are system requeriments ? For example: how much space will it take on my win 7?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

thank you very much

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I can't find the torrc file

I can't find the torrc file anywhere
i'm using os x 10.11.5
in 5.5.5 version it was with torrc-default file
but now i cant find it?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

THANK YOU

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Thanks a lot for the hard

Thanks a lot for the hard work!

How about officially integrating the DuckDuckGo onion search into TOR Browser (at least as an option)? Like it is done here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-on-tor/

In reply to Thanks a lot for the hard by Anonymous (not verified)

That's already done.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Thanks a lot for the hard by Anonymous (not verified)

This was

This was https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/16322 and is already implemented in Tor Browser 6.0.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I store Tor Browser inside a

I store Tor Browser inside a Veracrypt volume, but It will not upgrade after updating it, I have to cut and paste outside the volume, and only then, will upgrade to new version. What could be? Happens the same with plugins, they won't update, only out of the volume.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

hey tor browser wont start

hey tor browser wont start on debian jessie or 8 basicly. it will just say connecting to the Tor network and grabbing certificate authorities and stuff but it stays stuck 1/4 of the way there. icant get the network to load no matter what i do let alone the browser to pop up.

In reply to hey tor browser wont start by Anonymous (not verified)

What output do you get when

What output do you get when you start it on the terminal like so: ./start-tor-browser.desktop --debug inside your tor-browser_$LOCALE directory? Do older Tor Browser versions work?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Meek pluggable transport not

Meek pluggable transport not working on OS X. meek-client-torbrowser proxy is not launching.

Probably due to new directory structure, noted /Applications/TorBrowser.app/Contents/Resources/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/template-profile.meek-http-helper

actual proxy located in:

Maybe the link to the transport has not been updated for the new setup or in torrc.

Other proxies work.

In 5.5, meek was only located in /Applications/TorBrowser.app/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/meek-client-torbrowser and worked.

This error occurs on a fresh install of 6.0.

DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.

Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150

The communication stream of managed proxy 'PluggableTransports/meek-client-torbrowser' is 'closed'. Most probably the managed proxy stopped running.

We were supposed to connect to bridge '0.0.2.0:3' using pluggable transport 'meek', but we can't find a pluggable transport proxy supporting 'meek'. This can happen if you haven't provided a ClientTransportPlugin line, or if your pluggable transport proxy stopped running.

In reply to Meek pluggable transport not by Anonymous (not verified)

Works fine for me with a

Works fine for me with a fresh install and choosing meek-azure (this is on an old 10.6 testing Mac) . I wonder what is wrong on your side, hrm.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Maybe would be better to

Maybe would be better to test on 10.11 before just saying everything is fine?

In reply to Maybe would be better to by Anonymous (not verified)

I did not say everything is

I did not say everything is fine. I just said this is working on my OS X machine. How do you know from the original post that this is an issue on 10.11?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

10.11 is the latest, and

10.11 is the latest, and only version of OS X Apple issues full security updates for, so you'd think TorProject would want to test on it.

In reply to 10.11 is the latest, and by Anonymous (not verified)

I just used a Mac OS 10.11.5

I just used a Mac OS 10.11.5 system to try to reproduce this problem. I could not. I tried both en-US and es-ES packages.

In Tor Browser 6.0, the template-profile.meek-http-helper directory contents should be copied to TorBrowser-Data/Tor/PluggableTransports/profile.meek-http-helper by the meek client when it starts up. If the original commenter is still having problems, they should open a trac ticket so we can discuss this problem and investigate further.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to mcs

Will try to when I have

Will try to when I have time. Does anyone know how to enable logging on the meek proxy?

In reply to Will try to when I have by Anonymous (not verified)

In torrc, change the

In torrc, change the ClientTransportPlugin line to:

ClientTransportPlugin meek exec PluggableTransports/meek-client-torbrowser --log meek-client-torbrowser.txt -- PluggableTransports/meek-client --log meek-client.txt

This will give you two log files, meek-client-torbrowser.txt and meek-client.txt. meek-client-torbrowser is the program that starts up a headless copy of Firefox for TLS camouflage. meek-client actually implements the transport.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to dcf

Note to all OSX users

Note to all OSX users encountering similar error: make sure before upgrade/clean install for 6.0+ that user installing has sudo privileges. TorBrowser needs write access to /Applications/TorBrowser-Data/ which will fail unless the user is an administrator. sudo privileges can be removed after installation and first run without problems.

In reply to Note to all OSX users by Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks. This is

Anonymous (not verified) said:

thanks! i guess it's normal

i guess it's normal that http://ip-check.info/?lang=en says my user-agent is bad or should i reinstall it?

In reply to thanks! i guess it's normal by Anonymous (not verified)

They probably need to update

They probably need to update their test to reflect our switch to ESR45.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Under ‘main’ ‘env’

Under ‘main’ ‘env’ ‘test 1’ ‘test 2’ and ‘ssi’ http://www.stilllistener.com/checkpoint1/index.shtml gives the same user agent information that ip-check.info rates as bad (red).

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Maybe we should think

Maybe we should think carefully when consulting ip-check.info.

Since with TOR 6.0, when checking on ip-check.info, I was getting an orange and a red rating for Signature and User-Agent respectively I decided to reinstall TOR 5.5.5 and check the results again.

The Signature ‘Orange’ rating for TOR 6.0 becomes a ‘Green’ rating for TOR 5.5.5 showing EXACTLY the SAME ‘Value’.

In the case of User Agent the only difference between the Green rating for TOR 5.5.5 and a Red rating for TOR 6.0 is that for TOR 5.5.5 38.0 appears under Value and for TOR 6.0 that changes to 45.0.

Keep up the good work.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

This forced ass raping of

This forced ass raping of updates for 6.0 is bullshit.

Please make preventing auto updates an enjoyable, and possible, experience.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to This forced ass raping of by Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, the updates still

Yes, the updates still download when the respectively located update files have been removed and when about:config and the file crying about not being edited that directs you there have been altered to prevent them from doing so.

More trust in users would be nice :)

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to This forced ass raping of by Anonymous (not verified)

about:config app.update.auto

about:config
app.update.auto = false

With that said, is there any reason why you don't want updates? You're leaving yourself open to known security vulnerabilities.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to about:config app.update.auto by Anonymous (not verified)

as for me its against my

as for me its against my personal security rule #6:
never allow anyone to touch your property

Anonymous (not verified) said:

This isn't a Tor bug, but a

This isn't a Tor bug, but a Youtube one.

I was using 5.5.5 to surf Youtube without issue (each time using a fresh Tor extraction), then a few days ago HTML5 started to crash reliably after watching a few videos (does the same with v6.0).

Getting a "new identity" didn't fix the issue. You have to shut it down, kill Firefox in task manager, and restart in order to view HTML5 videos again (non-video websites still work).

Obviously Youtube made a change that is crashing Tor (since I used a fresh Tor extraction each time for weeks without issue).

For security reasons it's probably a good idea to restart as much as possible when getting a new identity, especially HTML5, so settings/cache/bugs/and other data aren't retained, and this would provide a fix to not only this issue, but countless others.

In reply to This isn't a Tor bug, but a by Anonymous (not verified)

Which operating system is

Which operating system is this happening on? And what does "reliably" mean? Do you have some particular steps I could try?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

This update is pretty

This update is pretty big!

Where is the hardened version for Windows?

In reply to This update is pretty by Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, it is big as the new

Yes, it is big as the new Firefox got a lot bigger (again). There is no hardened version for Windows. And it is none planned at the moment.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

So is it normal that it is

So is it normal that it is about 200MB? It was about 160 before this update.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to This update is pretty by Anonymous (not verified)

The "hardened" version

The "hardened" version specifically includes Address Sanitizer(ASan) which has a significant impact on performance in both memory usage and speed, which is why hardened is permanently stuck in alpha.
As for why it isn't available on Windows: Last I checked, ASan didn't fully support Windows.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

>Accept-Encoding: gzip,

>Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
>brotli
Whatever makes you happy.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to >Accept-Encoding: gzip, by Anonymous (not verified)

Is brotli secured and

Is brotli secured and bug-free?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

will audio fingerprinting be

will audio fingerprinting be fixed ?

In reply to will audio fingerprinting be by Anonymous (not verified)

You can follow the event

You can follow the event (and contribute to it): https://bugs.torproject.org/13017.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Thank you for CTRL+SHIFT+L

Thank you for CTRL+SHIFT+L . :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Now maybe getting a new circuit to bypass Cloudflare & co will be less annoying.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Automatic update from 5.5.5

Automatic update from 5.5.5 doesn't work. It says that there was an error (doesn't say which) and says to download from the website.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Tor browser now fullscreens

Tor browser now fullscreens itself rather than keeping to a standard size for greater anonymity.

I imagine this isn't seen in most common setups (unless it's a deliberate change). But I'm using a tiling WM (XMonad), and the behaviour I have always seen before is TB keeping itself to those fixed proportions to the left of the screen. If you start moving "tiles" about, it ends up losing track and fullscreening itself, but not if left alone. Now with 6.0, it is always fullscreen, though it does briefly display the initial tab at the smaller size on first opening, just for a split second before expanding to fill the whole screen..

In reply to Tor browser now fullscreens by Anonymous (not verified)

We did not change anything

We did not change anything regarding that particular code. I guess there are some underlying changes Mozilla did that are causing this. Could you open a ticket on trac.torproject.org so that we can investigate this? Thanks!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Done, #19263

Anonymous (not verified) said:

When I updated and restarted

When I updated and restarted Tor, AVG Free Edition blocked and quarantined Trojan horse inject3.ASKH coming from Tor Browser. Anyone else have this situation?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to When I updated and restarted by Anonymous (not verified)

Yep. Says the tojan is in

Yep. Says the tojan is in ..\TorBrowser\Browser\updated\AccessibleMarshal.dll

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to When I updated and restarted by Anonymous (not verified)

Yes, I've the same problem.

Yes, I've the same problem. AVG shows that the Trojaner is in AccessibleMarshal.dll

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Duckduckgo is owned by

Duckduckgo is owned by Gabriel Weinberg who earlier ran the site The Names Database, a community portal created for the purpose of data mining.

The Names Database was exceptionally underhanded in that it did not mine only its users, but offered them community perks if they exposed personal information of friends and relatives who could then be profiled with no say of their own.

If anyone thinks his stripes have faded you only have to look at his profile here, where he lists himself as a current a board member of Locality, which is a company that by its own words specializes in user data mining.

I doubt I need to explain why the integrating the platform of a current data miner, with a history of unethical practice, in a suite intended for user privacy is a really bad idea. Your data simply is not safe in the hands of this person.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to Duckduckgo is owned by by Anonymous (not verified)

at least some competition to

at least some competition to google's mining!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to at least some competition to by Anonymous (not verified)

That would be an argument if

That would be an argument if there weren't other alternatives, like Startpage.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to That would be an argument if by Anonymous (not verified)

don't create new monster to

don't create new monster to fight it later. do they have onion address at least?
i use it sometimes when http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ is unreachable

Anonymous (not verified) said:

How can I set a ExitNodes

How can I set a ExitNodes country code in the Mac OS X version of Tor 6.0? The torrc file apparently is no longer in the app bundle so where does Tor 6.0 look for torrc assuming torrc is still supported on a Mac? Or is there some other way of doing this now?

In reply to How can I set a ExitNodes by Anonymous (not verified)

https://trac.torproject.org/p

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13252#comment:22 has the layout changes. Do you find the torrc file with that help? If not, where did you install Tor Browser on your OS X system?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to How can I set a ExitNodes by Anonymous (not verified)

~/Library/Application\

Anonymous (not verified) said:

cannot set the

cannot set the "extensions.brief.homeFolder" for Brief addon
even if I set it manually from the "about:config", cannot set the integer more than "5"
.

It was worked normal on ver 5.5

Anonymous (not verified) said:

when downloading this

when downloading this version of tor it started out as having 7min left to finish dwnloading and than started climbing up to 15 mins left why would it do this? I have fast internet service

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I used to be able to use a

I used to be able to use a version of Tor on a flash drive and carry it across computers (IE: copying it to my work computer) and all my preferences (No script whitelist, addons, etc) would remain. Now, it behaves like a clean install every single time. It's VERY annoying/time consuming.

In reply to I used to be able to use a by Anonymous (not verified)

Hard to tell what is going

Hard to tell what is going wrong. Could you open a ticket in our bug tracker (trac.torproject.org) giving us some details on what worked and what is broken now so that we can investigate further? Thanks!

Anonymous (not verified) said:

If this is OS X, this is no

If this is OS X, this is no doubt because of the hasty decision to move profile files to Application Support folder vs having them in the Application itself simply to satisfy Gatekeeper which is easy for an attacker to bypass anyway.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to If this is OS X, this is no by Anonymous (not verified)

Just an FYI: It only puts it

Just an FYI: It only puts it in the application support folder if you put Tor in the Application folder. If you put Tor anywhere else (IE: a flash drive or the Desktop - which I do for a portable Tor browser and at work), it creates the data file in that directory - which makes it easy to find later for deleting purposes.

I wouldn't mind this change if they provided an easy way for me to point to the location of the profile information as I copy/paste tor.app across computers. But, as far as I could find, that doesn't exist right now.

A messy work-around:
1) Open the DMG and put Tor.app in the file you want it (I used my flash drive for this)
2) Open it so that it creates the TorBrowser-Data file
3) Set up Tor as desired
4) On new device, open DMG and put Tor.App in file you want
5) Open it so that it creates the TorBrowser-Data file
6) Quit Tor
7) Copy files from TorBrowser-Data file old device to same folder on the new device.
8) Open Tor (and your settings should all be there).

This is a messy fix (for some reason, some of my NoScript settings went a little wonky), but not as time consuming as how I had to do it before.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I'd love to do that, but it

I'd love to do that, but it keeps rejecting my registration as spam no matter what browser I use.

So here are additional details:
All computers running OSX 10.9.5

Under 5.5.5 and earlier, I could save Tor.app to whatever folder I like, set up all my preferences/addons (IE: ghostery, adblock plus, disconnect for social media, bookmarks, etc) load addon specific details (IE my noscript whitelist) and then exit out of Tor, copy the Tor.app to a flash drive and then either use Tor from the flash drive, or copy it to other computers as needed with all preferences/settings in tact.

Now, even if I copy the Tor-Data folder along with the Tor.app to a flash drive, Tor always behaves as a 'clean version', so I have to reload all these preferences for every individual computer.

I figured that was because the data was unpackaged from the rest of Tor (as mentioned in the bug fixes), but then I didn't see a place where I could easily change the setting in Tor to point to the location of the "Tor-Data" file.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to I'd love to do that, but it by Anonymous (not verified)

It would be nice to know all

It would be nice to know all file locations for version 6.0 vs 5.5.5 in OS X. If you uninstall version 5.5.5 by removing the .app file is there anything else to remove before installing 6.0 to achieve a clean install?

In reply to It would be nice to know all by Anonymous (not verified)

For 5.5.5, removing the .app

For 5.5.5, removing the .app folder should be enough.
For 6.0, you also need to remove the TorBrowser-Data folder which will either be next to the .app or, if you place the .app bundle in /Applications, it will be at ~/Library/Application Support/TorBrower-Data.

In reply to I'd love to do that, but it by Anonymous (not verified)

With Tor Browser 6.x on Mac

With Tor Browser 6.x on Mac OS, if you move or copy the TorBrowser-Data folder and make sure it is next to TorBrowser.app, the browser profile, Tor data, and other settings should be used. It works for me. The data folder name is important, you should not rename it.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to mcs

This doesn't work across

This doesn't work across file systems.
My work computer profile is "TorWork", then the file structure is Torwork/.

My Home computers are Mini/.
Laptop/.

My flash drive is Flash/.

The only way to get Tor to copy/paste somewhat cleanly across systems is how I described above. Just copy pasting Tor.app and Tor-Data wasn't good enough. Tor.app is somehow linked to how it creates Tor-Data.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

Terrible. I clicked to

Terrible. I clicked to update, it got to the connecting to the Tor network and it did nothing for 3 hours. I exited and now cannot access the browser at all. I then downloaded the new version and when I click to install it freezes Windows Explorer. I have to manually restart that process. The browser is unusable now when it was perfect. Now it sucks and reminds me of IE.
I am running Windows 8.1 No error messages nothing. Just does nothing.

If anyone has any ideas? I am open to suggestion.

In reply to Terrible. I clicked to by Anonymous (not verified)

Do you have any

Do you have any antivirus/firewall software running on your system? The symptoms you mentioned fit well to such a software trying to protect you and while doing so is interfering with Tor Browser. If so, could you uninstall it for testing purposes (disabling is often not enough).

Anonymous (not verified) said:

since update it will not open

Anonymous (not verified) said:

I've searched some and don't

I've searched some and don't see where the 'maximize' issue was resolved. Can someone say whether maximizing is a fingerprinting risk now or not?

Also does using fullscreen mode (F11) represent a risk?

Anonymous (not verified) said:

In reply to I've searched some and don't by Anonymous (not verified)

>I've searched some and

>I've searched some and don't see where the 'maximize' issue was resolved.

It cannot be resolved easily. My guess is that it would require the rendering engine itself to be thoroughly changed, something Tor Browser devs are not very likely to do. If you want a more precise answer, be yourself more precise about what you mean with "maximize issue".

>Can someone say whether maximizing is a fingerprinting risk now or not?

It has always been and it continues to be.

>Also does using fullscreen mode (F11) represent a risk?

Read: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/ . In particular the section "7. Monitor, Widget, and OS Desktop Resolution" under "Specific Fingerprinting Defenses in the Tor Browser".

Anonymous (not verified) said:

channe-prefs.js:

channe-prefs.js: pref("app.update.channel", "alpha"),

I set it to alpha from stable a few months ago because I want to use latest version as possible.
So should I switch back to "release" to receive this update?

I'm expecting alpha gets alpha and release(latest as possible) version, if not please consider it.

In reply to channe-prefs.js: by Anonymous (not verified)

If you can wait a couple of

If you can wait a couple of days, next week will be a new alpha available.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

This is giving me quite a

This is giving me quite a headache. how do I update TOR within TAILS os? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.