New Tor Browser Bundles
The Tor Browser Bundles have been updated with a bunch of bug fixes.
Important note to Windows users: in the last release we enabled automatic port selection for Tor and this had very unexpected side effects on many Windows machines. It turns out that there are a number of consumer firewalls that don't like things connecting on high ports, which was the default. We're looking into smarter ways to handle this failure mode, but until we find one, we have reverted the behavior to using the previous static port. We're very sorry for the huge inconvenience this caused and hope you will find these bundles more bug-free! As ever, if you don't, please let us know.
https://www.torproject.org/download
Tor Browser Bundle (2.2.32-4)
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Windows fixes
- Disable automatic port selection to accommodate Windows users with
firewalls that don't allow connections or traffic on high ports (closes: #3952, #3945) - Fix Makefile to allow for automatic retrieval of Qt and libpng (closes: #2255)
- Remove symlinks from tarball (closes: #2312)
- New Firefox patches
- Prevent Firefox from loading all system plugins besides Flash (closes: #2826, #3547)
- Prevent content-preferences service from writing website urls and their settings to disk (closes: #3229)
- Update Torbutton to 1.4.3
- Don't let Torbutton inadvertently enable automatic updating in Firefox (closes: #3933)
- Fix auto-scroll on Twitter (closes: #3960)
- Allow site zoom information to be stored (closes: #3928)
- Make permissions and disk errors human-readable (closes: #3649)
Linux fixes
General fixes and updates
To start off, I am a Tor
To start off, I am a Tor newbie. So go easy on me. I just installed Tor Bundle (w/ Aurora) on my Windows XP PS3 machine. I have few questions that I am hoping someone can answer:
(1) Problem - The Tor button in the menu button does not work to toggle Tor on/off. When I click on it, I just get a drop-down menu to get a new identity, etc. The only way I can toggle Tor on and off is by going to the Vidalia Control Panel. Is this by design or does my Tor Button on the menu has an issue?
(2) Installed on C: drive, it takes 30 seconds to connect to Tor network and another 45 seconds for Aurora to open up. Is this normal? Any way to make it a bit faster? As a baseline, my normal Firefox takes a bit less than 6 seconds to be up and running.
(3) I am using two separate installations: normal Firefox and Aurora with Tor. I would have liked to use just the normal Firefox with the TorButton but could not figure out how to do that. In this case, I did install the TorButton but ran into proxy problems. It seems I need to install something else but not sure what from what's on the website. Plus I got a bit intimidated by the fact that I would need to configure lot of stuff for Tor to run properly going this route. Correct? Any help/suggestion?
Newbie question - I am
Newbie question - I am switching over to Tor/Aurora. Question re: plugins. In Firefox I have used Ghostery, Better Privacy, NoScript, AdBlock Plus, AdBlock Element Hiding, AdBlock Plus Pop-up Addon, TrackmeNot and BrowserProtect for online privacy/safety. Can I run these plugin safely with Aurora in (1) Tor mode (2) in non-Tor mode? I guess the question has two parts - one relating to stability/compatibility and other desirability from privacy/security point of view.
Apparently no one from tor
Apparently no one from tor is monitoring this thread. Been a couple months since my last post and still no response. This new aurora thing is a pain. I never had a problem using tor until it came along.
Is there a way to prevent
Is there a way to prevent the tor bundle firefox and my system firefox instances to be grouped in the Windows 7 taskbar?
With the old bundle I had a sepparate button for tor bundle firefox on the taskbar but with the update it's now grouped with my system firefox.
Still getting, like many
Still getting, like many others, numerous blue screens and program stopped working messages.
Running on win7 x67 ultimate.
I'm running this on Linux,
I'm running this on Linux, and the on/off toggle doesn't seem to work.
Please, someone, look into
Please, someone, look into why so many of us are getting the BSOD crashes with the TBB......ALL of us can't have bad RAM....Windows 7 x64.
What he said!
What he said!
ditto - Win7 x64
ditto - Win7 x64
Read the post, several posts
Read the post, several posts up (from me actually), about disabling or getting rid of Kaspersky.....I uninstalled KIS 2012 and have been happy since! I have no earthly why KIS causes TBB to crash, but it does.
I am running Microsoft Security Essentials now (FREE), and am very impressed with it.
Hi I am rather new to TOR
Hi I am rather new to TOR the main question I have is that
http://ip-check.info gives me 3 ORANGE labels
HTTP Session medium
Signature medium
Browser Window medium
I am using (Windows Services)
SQUID with Roundrobin to (Privoxy to Polipo to TOR Chains)
with DNS going through TOR as well
Firefox Portable > Squid HTTP 3128
Squid Version 2.7.STABLE2 > Privoxy HTTP 8118
Privoxy Version 3.0.17 > Polipo 8123
Polipo Version Unknown > SOCKS 4a to TOR on port different from 9050
All works very well! and speed is acceptable with this configuration and the IP changes occur frequently but I dont understand the Signature shown it never shows TOR even when I run a Tor Bundle
Any suggestions
Hi I am rather new to TOR
Hi I am rather new to TOR the main question I have is that
http://ip-check.info gives me 3 ORANGE labels
HTTP Session medium
Signature medium
Browser Window medium
I am using (Windows Services)
SQUID with Roundrobin to (Privoxy to Polipo to TOR Chains)
with DNS going through TOR as well
Firefox Portable > Squid HTTP 3128
Squid Version 2.7.STABLE2 > Privoxy HTTP 8118
Privoxy Version 3.0.17 > Polipo 8123
Polipo Version Unknown > SOCKS 4a to TOR on port different from 9050
All works very well! and speed is acceptable with this configuration and the IP changes occur frequently but I dont understand the Signature shown it never shows TOR even when I run a Tor Bundle
Any suggestions
Hi I am rather new to TOR in
Hi I am rather new to TOR in http://ipcheck.info I get 3 orange
HTTP Session Medium
Signature Medium
Browser Window Medium
My main concern is why the Signature isnt ok
Is this normal or have I configured something wrong
Any suggestions on what I should look for...
Hi I have a puzzle for you.
Hi I have a puzzle for you. I have installed the latest Tor browser suite on a memory card and installed it also on a flash drive. The memory card suite always stalls on 'loading relays' and vidalia says 'not responding'. The other suite works without problems. They are not used at the same time. Each has its own permission to access the internet through the firewall. Each has been re-installed several times but the performance is as before. How can I get the memory card version to work?
i am running windows 7 and 4
i am running windows 7 and 4 out of 5 times that i try to start the application it goes to the "blue screen of death" telling me that there is an error and that my computer has to shut down to prevent damage. but every once in a while it will connect just fine. I had tor on my old laptop and ran vista and never encounterd this problem once, but now it seems to always happen ive un-installed and re-installed a few times but keep getting the same results. suggestions please
hi i'm new to tor and was
hi i'm new to tor and was wondering how to fix a problem, vidalia will connect tor the tor network fine but aurora wont start or it will but it wont connect to any sites can somone please help?
Hi, I'm having a minor
Hi, I'm having a minor problem with the newest versions of TAILS. In ver. 0.09 I had no trouble finding new bridges, but in ver. 0.10 and 0.10.1 when I go into settings/network and click Find Bridges I get Connection Refused and I have to enter bridges manually.
Any suggestions?
Also noticed that javascript was enabled by default.
Hi, I use windows vista and
Hi, I use windows vista and I've recently started using the torbrowserbundle.
I had downloaded it on Febr 15th 2012 and it worked fine at first, but for some reason all of a sudden it doesn't work properly anymore.
When I start it up, it says it has connected to Tor and even shows that "green onion" icon, but the browser doesn't get launched automatically anymore.
Then when I check at "check.torproject.org" it says I'm not using Tor..
Everything seems to be configured fine though..
When I try to launch the torbrowser manually, by going to the firefoxportable section in the browserbundle and clicking on "tbb-firefox", it opens the browser for about a split second and then it crashes rightaway.
So, I've tried deleting the whole bundle and downloading it anew, but the problem persists..
Could anyone help me out please? Thanks!
I have the same problem..
I have the same problem.. all identical... I'm on Vista too.. it worked fine in the first day, now Tor connects but the browser is not opening and when I try to do it manually it crashes..
Same problem but on a Mac,
Same problem but on a Mac, at first i thought it was just me and maybe i did something wrong but now i guess there is some sort of bug making it crash right when i try to open Aurora my Vidalia control panel shows a green onion connected!
Ive never been able to use
Ive never been able to use the tor bundle. always,.... always crashes ( not responding) when I double click the "start tor bundle. exe" Ive been on tor through anonymox with firefox. That stopped working for the last 3 days so I went back to trying to get the bundle working. Never worked and still doesn't. Turned off everything, still crashes. Had to find an understandable answer. I know im not the only one.
You're not the only one. In
You're not the only one. In my case I had the ZoneAlarm Toolbar not allowing me to connect. When I started Tor, and Vidalia loaded, ZA "Browser Security" toolbar would crash with an error report. I then went into Windows running services list (Start>Run> services.msc ) and disabled the toolbar to get Tor working. It's under the, let me see now, "ZoneAlarm LTD Toolbar IswSvc" listing. Once I got that disabled I could use Tor software bundle again. I had it working before, but had to do a complete system re-install for another, unrelated problem and the clean install of Windows, ZA, and Tor, it wouldn't work until I fixed it. I thought that was strange, but maybe ZA changed something.
Anyway, I should note that I don't need friggin ZA toolbar to secure my browser, others might, so it's up to you how you proceed.
Hey guys. If you want to
Hey guys. If you want to configure your java and flash to show your tor ip instead of leaking your real ip address, here is how you do it. And btw thanks for this awesome project. I hope its helpful.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqw3ig_hiding-ip-address-from-your-fla…
hi man... i am a new tor
hi man...
i am a new tor user. i want to watch movies using tor but the sites i visit always require flash player and because the tor button does not allow to run flash player i cannot watch movies. can you please suggest some ways by which i can get tor to unblock flash player...i would be really great full.
thanks..aks