New Release: Tor Browser 10.5a1

by sysrqb | September 24, 2020

Tor Browser 10.5a1 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our distribution directory.

Note: This is an alpha release, an experimental version for users who want to help us test new features. For everyone else, we recommend downloading the latest stable release instead.

Tor Browser 10.5a1 ships with Firefox 78.3.0esr, updates NoScript to 11.0.44, and Tor to 0.4.4.5.

Note: Tor Browser 10.5 does not support CentOS 6.

Note: Now Javascript on the Safest security level is governed by NoScript again. It was set as false when on Safest in 9.5a9. The javascript.enabled preference was reset to true for everyone using Safest and you must re-set it as false if that is your preference.

Note: After investigating the error seen by Windows users while playing videos on Youtube, a user helped us identify the cause. Until this is fixed in an upcoming release, a workaround is setting media.rdd-opus.enabled as false in about:config.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 10.0a7 is:

  • Windows + OS X + Linux
    • Update Firefox to 78.3.0esr
    • Update Tor to 0.4.4.5
    • Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.25
      • Translations update
    • Update NoScript to 11.0.44
      • Bug 40093: Youtube videos on safer produce an error
    • Translations update
  • Linux
    • Bug 40089: Remove CentOS 6 support for Tor Browser 10.5
  • Build System
    • Linux
      • Bug 26238: Move to Debian Jessie for our Linux builds
      • Bug 40041: Remove CentOS 6 support for 10.5 series
      • Bug 40103: Add i386 pkg-config path for linux-i686

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Anonymous (not verified) said:

September 25, 2020

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09:05:37.244 Uncaught TypeError: aSubject is null
observe chrome://browser/content/pageinfo/permissions.js:25
torbutton_do_new_identity chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js:917
torbutton_new_identity chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js:791
oncommand chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml:1
permissions.js:25:24
observe chrome://browser/content/pageinfo/permissions.js:25
torbutton_do_new_identity chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js:917
torbutton_new_identity chrome://torbutton/content/torbutton.js:791
oncommand chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml:1

Baali (not verified) said:

September 27, 2020

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Looks like you can't write a comment when having the security slider on safest... why is the site using javascript anyways? There is a new version of OpenSSL that you could update in the next Tor alpha release and maybe for the android version too.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

September 29, 2020

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Suggestion: To avoid possible confusion, the first sentence in the text body of this blog notice should read "Tor Browser 10.5a1 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our distribution directory," instead of "Tor Browser 10.1a1 is now available from the Tor Browser Alpha download page and also from our distribution directory."

Anonymous (not verified) said:

October 06, 2020

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Click in the dialog to download but the installation fails.
Can not update to 10.5a1.

Tor Browser 10.0a4
10.0a4 (based on Mozilla Firefox 68.11.0esr) (32-bit)