Tor Browser 7.5.5 is released

by boklm | June 09, 2018

Tor Browser 7.5.5 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features important security updates to Firefox.

This release updates Firefox to 52.8.1esr. In addition, we had to remove the amazon-meek pluggable transport.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.5.4 is:

  • All platforms
    • Update Firefox to 52.8.1esr
    • Bug 26098: Remove amazon-meek
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You mean this blog? We're privacy advocates and human rights advocates, not (for the most part) hackers.

But take a look at the PKI certificate for blog.torproject.org. Weird, ain't it? Not a certificate controlled by Tor Project, and it is shared with numerous other domains including a company called forensicon.com. Makes you think, huh? Especially since TP is refusing to answer questions about it.

The PKI cert for www.torproject.org looks fine, BTW.

PETER

wydee (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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good

PETER

LEE (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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palemoon has this function:

Tools>Preference>Content
Load images: Automatically,Never,Originating server only

Hop TOR has the function too. Thanks

If you find that "Tor is too slow", the most effective ways of fixing that in Tor Browser are to use about:config to change that setting to value "2", and also to change javascript:enabled to FALSE. EFF's panopticlick appears to suggest that most Tor Browser users are making these changes.

arma never did explain why Rachel isn't working for TB instead of DARPA, regarding increasing entropy of posts like this one to make stylometry more difficult. That's too bad for us..

OK, well gk knows much more than I, so everyone should probably follow his advice, not mine.

I'd just ask that TP make sure someone (gk or nm mebbe) is looking into how the demise of net neutrality might affect ordinary Tor users. I think best judgment on issues involving how Tor interacts with the wider internet (e.g. CDNs, anti-DDOS screeners, new EU laws, new US laws, continued internecine warfare among media sites and with the US White House, etc.) is likely to change in coming months.

PETER

Herrysequis (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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hi.
i am one of the admirers of tor browser.
please indicate how to deal with a very disturbing reCHAPTCHA.
I want my tor browser can automatically execute reCHAPTCHA.
Please inform us how to solve it

Herrysequis@gmail.com

best regards,

Herry :)

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PETER

Anonymous (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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thanks

PETER

Anonymous (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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am getting this message when trying to change to new identity

Torbutton: Unexpected error on new identity: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE) [nsIPrefService.savePrefFile]" nsresult: "0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js :: torbutton_do_new_identity :: line 1215" data: no]

and then the whole page goes what and have to restart tor which seems to take forever to launch...

PETER

Anonymous (not verified) said:

June 10, 2018

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Torbutton: Unexpected error on new identity: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE) [nsIPrefService.savePrefFile]" nsresult: "0x80520010 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NO_DEVICE_SPACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js :: torbutton_do_new_identity :: line 1215" data: no]

PETER

Mac User (not verified) said:

June 11, 2018

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Mac
Experiencing constant slow uploading failures, increased time from 15 minutes to hours and eventual upload stuck.
Attempting to install 7.5.4 dmg wont open. The following disk images could't be opened. TorBrowser-7.5.4-osx6 Operation timed out.
Attempted to open 7.5.5 dmg won't open. The following disk images could't be opened. TorBrowser-7.5.5-osx6 Operation timed out.
Second attempt complete failure opening dmg for both versions. Must re download to get your one attempt. which fails with above message.

PETER

jack (not verified) said:

June 11, 2018

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good

PETER

Mac User (not verified) said:

June 12, 2018

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Mac.
Mac dmg's 7.5.5 & 7.5.4 won't open. I let them update. Wanted to roll back.
7.5.5 running very slow, unusual, hanging compared to 7.5.4.

PETER

Anonymous (not verified) said:

June 12, 2018

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Higher and higer GFW, less and less Plugintransports. We need more kinds of Bridge. FTE has not been updated for 3 years. What's next we will lose? Oh,god.

PETER

Mac User (not verified) said:

June 13, 2018

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Mac dmg's now opening.
Mac 7.5.5 hanging, stall out, lack of performance, uploading failure & unbearable tasks take longer & fail.

PETER

tortor (not verified) said:

June 13, 2018

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On a Mac OS I see 4 bridges, obfs4, obfs3, meek amazon(works in China) and meek-azure(works in china) how does the removal of the Amazon transport bug26098 affect these bridges? Is meek amazon(works in China) related?

PETER

Anon (not verified) said:

June 14, 2018

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Tor seems to remember all of the URL history from previous sessions, when I try to manually enter a new URL. That surprises me since Tor does NOT remember browser history. Is there a way to configure this behavior?

I did NOT say the Tor Browser history was preserved. The history page (ctrl+h) is always empty. What is being preserved is the *URL type-ahead* history. If I go to enter the website in the URL entry area at the top, Tor is matching the leading substring of anything I type. Are you saying those matches are confined to just the entries that I have permanently bookmarked? So that is a bookmark matching feature?

PETER

anon (not verified) said:

June 14, 2018

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There's something wrong with FF 52.8.1.
I'm using non e10 add-ons and after updating https everywhere
Multiprocess Windows 0/1 (Disabled by add-ons) changes to 1/1 (Enabled by default).
New Identity makes the TBB window moving step by step across the screen.
Platform Windows, maybe somebody can confirm.

PETER

Mac User (not verified) said:

June 15, 2018

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Mac 7.5.5
Constant problems Uploading, even loading a page, takes hours to perform a task.
Hanging, stall out, lack of performance, uploading failure & unbearable tasks take longer & fail.
I have to roll back a version to get it to work, but it still takes hours as it also attempting to upload to 7.5.5 at the same time. I've never seen anything extremely wrong with Tor till this version.
When will this be verified?

PETER

Mac User (not verified) said:

June 17, 2018

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Mac
Problem loading page. The connection has timed out. Uploads have gone from a couple minutes to over an hour or
never finishing.

PETER

Maatsa Bawl (not verified) said:

June 20, 2018

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Very important comment.
I wish to thank you very, very much for this modification to my browser. It makes me feel really good.

PETER

crazy stallion (not verified) said:

June 21, 2018

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I am living in a dump like India and very much fed up with Google and Microsoft. as they always give hand third party to surveil its client..Thank you TOR to let us roaming freely in this beautiful virtual world..