New Release: Tor Browser 9.0.1

Tor Browser 9.0.1 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
Tor Browser 9.0.1 is the first bugfix release in the 9.0 series and aims to mostly fix regressions and provide small improvements related to our 9.0 release. Additionally, we are adding a banner on the starting page for our fundraising campaign Take Back the Internet with Tor.
Known Issue
For each new release, two members from our team are building the release separately and compare the result to make sure that it is reproducible. For the 9.0 and 9.0.1 releases, however, an issue that we are still investigating is making our build not completely deterministic. As a workaround for this issue, we had to do multiple builds until we got matching builds. You might need to do the same if you are trying to reproduce our build.
Note: due to some delay with the signing, the Android version is not yet available. We expect to be able to publish the signed Android version in a few hours. Update: the Android version has been published.
ChangeLog
The full changelog since Tor Browser 9.0 is:
- All Platforms
- Windows + OS X + Linux
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.20.2
- Bug 32164: Trim each received log line from tor
- Translations update
- Bug 31803: Replaced about:debugging logo with flat version
- Bug 31764: Fix for error when navigating via 'Paste and go'
- Bug 32169: Fix TB9 Wikipedia address bar search
- Bug 32210: Hide the tor pane when using a system tor
- Bug 31658: Use builtin --panel-disabled-color for security level text
- Bug 32188: Fix localization on about:preferences#tor
- Bug 32184: Red dot is shown while downloading an update
- Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.20.2
- Android
- Bug 32342: Crash when changing the browser locale
ok, i surrender. i've copied…
ok, i surrender.
i've copied an edited pref.js file into .../tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default
before firstrun of a TBB 9.0 and tried to disable 'check for updates' with this varying settings:
user_pref("app.update.auto", false);
user_pref("app.update.disabledForTesting", true); boolean; DOES NOT EXIST in TBB 9.0
user_pref("app.update.doorhanger", false);
* user_pref("app.update.enabled", false); boolean; DOES NOT EXIST in TBB 9.0
user_pref("app.update.url", "https://non-existent.org"); or "/dev/null"
* user_pref("app.update.url.details", ""); or "/dev/null"
* user_pref("app.update.url.manual", ""); or "/dev/null"
* user_pref("extensions.torbutton.versioncheck_url", ""); or "/dev/null"
* user_pref("browser.policies.testing.disallowEnterprise", false);
there is no update prompt anymore but still showing the
'Update to 9.0.1' button in about:preferences and the best:
it downloads (!) the update from somewhere even if ALL urls in about:config are deleted.
is there a hidden fallback url or WHAT IS IT that still checks and even downloads an update?
exact advices please!
"See how Tails is disabling…
"See how Tails is disabling the updates"
Ok -i hope it works.
But, why torproject and Mozills Corp. think all Torbrowser users, all
Firefox users want to ping yourand their servers, everytime they open Options
or 'About Tor Browser'?
Without loosing trust because it's US-software under US-law?
Can you explain that, why there is no simple No Update option? Logically(-:?
You can read the discussions…
You can read the discussions in the mozilla ticket where they implemented this:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420514
+1: how to?
+1: how to?
>Can you explain that, why…
>Can you explain that, why there is no simple No Update option? Logically(-:?
>You can read the discussions in the mozilla ticket where they implemented this
Clap, clap (-:, i have read it. If the distributors don't want explain, don't want discussion, they shouldn't pretend they wan't.
They don't want because there is NO logical explanation why users should accept they have no choice. Manually update shouldn't be sport.
The spirit of Tor - you should know this. It is not much space between trust and distrust.
We did not decide to remove…
We did not decide to remove this option. Mozilla did it, and they explained why.
I don't really like it myself, but there are still some ways to do it, although not as easy as before. I think it's not perfect, but we don't have unlimited time, and already many other things to work on, so if someone who think that's important wants to spend the time to investigate this and document the best way to do it, then that would be useful.