Tor Browser 4.0.1 is released

by gk | October 31, 2014

A bugfix release for the latest stable Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

Most notably, Tor Browser 4.0.1 fixes a crash bug affecting many users on Windows (see: bug 13443 for the details). Furthermore, the latest stable version of Tor (0.2.5.10) is included and a bug in our updater code got fixed.

This is not a security update, and we will not be deploying update notification or automatic upgrades for all platforms for this release. We may provide automatic updates just for Windows users later in the week, but we are hesitant to do this immediately due to Bug 13594.

Here is the changelog since 4.0:

  • All Platforms
    • Update Tor to 0.2.5.10
    • Update NoScript to 2.6.9.3
      • Bug 13301: Prevent extensions incompatibility error after upgrades
      • Bug 13460: Fix MSVC compilation issue
  • Windows
    • Bug 13443: Disable DirectShow to prevent crashes on many sites
    • Bug 13091: Make app name "Tor Browser" instead of "Tor"
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tor browser bundle
tor browser
tbb
tbb-4.0
Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 07, 2014

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TBB 4.0.0 was a bust - due to my clumsy fingers!

I've now installed TBB 4.0.1 on my XP, deliberately made the same mistake and crashed. With the re-installation I made sure not to push for a alternative file download path. Problem solved! I also deleted the redundant Tor d/l file from my "My Docs".

To me, TBB 4.0.1 is, except as above, exactly the same as TRR 3.6.6. And what the h--- is "meek". Can't see it anywhere. LOL

Keep up the good job, Tor.

@ arma

Yep! I did take the trouble, after my post above, to research this "meek". Nope! I don't have censorship issues so "meek is "not wanted on voyage". T

Thanks for the "neat" compliment. To a non-techie that's like being awarded a Silver Star!

But for those other XP users please allow me to point out that I reformatted and reinstalled XP HE sp3 way back in January in anticipation of MS dropping their XP support system in April.

And I've never looked back!

I plan on upgrading from XP just as soon as a mental-control interface becomes the norm. LOL

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 07, 2014

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hi
tor browser bundle doesn't start up at all I tried many times but I 've got the same thing.
I use windows 8.
Does anyone can suggest something to get through?
Thanks

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 07, 2014

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Maybe sounds crazy:

I use Vidalia (standalone) to see the circuits.
When my 1st EntryGuard is stressed by deleting circuits my
2nd EntryGuard (or the 3rd) builds one always with 'zwiebeltorolaf' as ExitNode
(the circuit works same as others and the Node in the middle changes).

Signature of TBB is checked.
I changed the EntryGuards and excluded 'zwiebeltorolaf' (ExcludeNodes) in torrc but this doesn't help.

Is this a default behaviour (since TBB 4.0, now 4.0.1) of Tor?

And YES, I'm able to reproduce it.
I can see this every session.

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 08, 2014

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It's great Tor is available for computers, but when will Tor create a Tor browser mobile app for iPod and iPhone?

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 08, 2014

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Cloudfare and their 'just one more step" auto-blocking of Tor need to be told to go and take a hike. This has nothing to do with "fighting spammers" or "protecting the children"; it is so obvious it deliberately intended to peeve off Tor users. Get lost Cloudfare!

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 08, 2014

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TOR download will not extract without giving at least two .dll errors : one of which is libevent-2-0-5.dll

I think the other one was libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll

I'm using XP SP2 (nothing wrong with this OS : I uninstalled IE and use Firefox)

Why the errors please ?

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 09, 2014

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Help -> About Tor Browser

31.2.0 (Tor Browser 4.0)

Tor Browser is up to date

I thought inplace upgrading was supposed to work in TBB 4 so why do I see no update?

Why is Torbrowser for Mac actually 32 bit instead of 64 bit?

The original Firefox ESR for Mac is already for a long time 64 bit, running without any problems on 32 bit as 64 bit MacIntel-machines as well (minimum os x 10.6 and later).

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 09, 2014

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Hi, thanks for your good work!
I just want to report some staff...

1st When I go to: "Menu" --> "Help Menu" --> "About Tor Browser" and
a) click on "Tor Project", instead of taking me to the Tor Projects' website (https://www.torproject.org/), it takes me to Mozilla's home page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/)
b) click on "global community" it takes me to Moxilla's Contributors (https://www.mozilla.org/credits/)
c) click on "Get Involved" it takes me to Mozilla's volunteers (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/contribute/)

2nd When I go to: "Menu" --> "Help Menu" --> "Tor Browser Help" it takes me to Mozilla's help page (https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/31.2.0/WINNT/en-US/firefox-help), instead of a similar Tor's page.

3rd When I go to: "Menu" --> "Help Menu" --> "Tor Browser Toor" it takes me to Mozilla's Firefox toor page (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/31.2.0/tour/)

4th When I go to: "Menu" --> "Help Menu" --> "Submit Feedback..." it takes me to Mozilla's feedback page (https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback/firefox/31.2.0/), instead of a Tor's similar one

In fact, these existed in every previous version of Tor Browser...

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 10, 2014

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Regarding the missing media tab under 'page info'...the ticket at

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13489

Seems to have been closed because it is a duplicate. However it doesn't look to me like a duplicate, 13254 appears at first glance to be a different issue, even though they may have the same root cause.

Both deal with missing page info, but the security tab at least shows up (for me)...media info is completely missing.

"but the security tab at least shows up (for me)"

Yes but its not in function, "Technical Details" stay's empty.
The "Security information for this page" in the general tab seems not to display all the information it should.

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 13, 2014

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Tor Browser 4.0.1 probably has an DNS leak.
Steps to reproduce on Windows with a enabled firewall (eg. Comodo):
1. Disable system DNS cache.
2. Go to any www site and download any link or file use "Save link as..."
After downloading the file a firewall will report a few UDP request on port 53 to the clearnet.

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 13, 2014

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For the second time in two days experienced exactly the error as descibed in #13377. Filling my console with this message, making my Torbrowser quite unresponsive with a very nervous mouse pointer, help am i being hacked? No its 's just NoScript ethousiasm? ;).
#13377 new defect
NoScript exception when clicking on New Identity (onWidgetAfterDOMChange) in ESR 31
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/13377
Should i install an older NoScript version or go back to torbrowser 4.0?

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 13, 2014

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I am unable to keep my Tor relay operating above a pathetic 2K bandwidth.

My DSL service allows upload speeds of more than 300K.

In my Tor relay settings, I have specified 50K for both average and minimum. The Tor bandwidth self-test usualy shows close to that.

Sometimes the relay has run at 20K, but always seems to drop to 6K, then to 3K, and now 2K.

ATT is my provider.

Any ideas?

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 15, 2014

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uhh...sry to tell u that tbb4 cannot work with windows clients by bridges of amazon/azure-meek guys, yup, my network is under the GFW (the Great FireWall). But if I use the Linux clients, eg.Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS, the tbb4 works!

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 16, 2014

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A question for the Tor project, when will Tor 4.0.2 be released to the public?

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 17, 2014

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I don't know if this is the correct place to post this but:

I have been using Tor for a few months without any problems but suddenly today I keep getting the error message:

"Tor unexpectedly exited. This might be due to a bug in Tor itself, another program on your system or faulty hardware….."

So when I click restart Tor I just get the same message. I have downloaded the latest version (I was using 4.0) - but the same error keeps occurring.

When I click to copy the Tor Log it just shows as blank i.e. no info

I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and as I said have been using Tor for a few months without any problems until today - any help would be much appreciated!

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 23, 2014

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Windows 7 64 - Tor doesnt load at all.
I unpacked Tor 4.0.1. to My desktop, then clicked "Start Tor Browser" - nothing happened.
4.0. version also doesnt starts now from its own folder.
There is no any new processes when I click "Start Tor Browser"

- I dont use "trusteer rapport"
- I cannot set the about:config option to set "media.directshow.enabled" to "false" since browser dont even starts
- I had installed Tor into a fresh location rather than overwriting an old Tor Browser install

Could you help me?

More info for My above comment from November 23rd, 2014:
When I click "Start Tro Browser" there is WerFault.exe loaded in Processes (I can see it through Task Manager) for a second and then immediately disappears.

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

November 27, 2014

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#########################################################
# BUG REPORT
#########################################################

There seems to be a major screw-up in terms of screen size (resolution) fingerprinting - checked on https://panopticlick.eff.org:

Plain Firefox 33.1.1 shows 1024x600x24, independently of whether the menu bar is shown or not.

torbrowser-install-4.0.1_en-US.exe on WinXP Home 32 bit causes following instead:
- With menu bar shown (default): 1024x476x24 ("one in 1183729.75 browsers have this value")
- With menu bar disabled: 1024x499x24 ("one in 175367.48 browsers have this value")

As far as I remember, pre-4.0 versions of TBB had some fix common value, such as 1024x768x24 or something.

#########################################################
# END BUG REPORT
#########################################################

Anonymous

Anonymous (not verified) said:

December 01, 2014

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Tor Browser Crash:

Tools/options/General/save files to, then when I click on Browse and it crashes the Tor browser every time.

Windows XP Pro