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Tor Browser

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Security Status

  • Latest Version

    Tor Browser 14.0 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

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  • Author / Product

    The Tor Project / External Link

  • Filename

    tor-browser-windows-x86_64-portable-14.0.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    280b523f2b28e7a0ff11fcf24c4b3075

The Tor Browser, short for The Onion Router, is a renowned web browser that prioritizes privacy and anonymity. It's based on Mozilla Firefox and is specifically designed to allow users to browse the web while concealing their identity and online activities. Tor Browser achieves this by routing your internet traffic through a network of volunteer-operated servers (nodes) to make it extremely challenging for anyone to trace your online actions back to you.

Key Features

Anonymous Browsing: The app routes your internet traffic through multiple servers, making it nearly impossible for anyone to trace your IP address or monitor your online activities.

Secure Connection: The browser uses the HTTPS Everywhere extension to ensure that your connection to websites is encrypted whenever possible, enhancing your security.

No Tracking: It blocks cookies and prevents tracking scripts from monitoring your behavior online, preserving your privacy.

Multi-Platform: Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, making it accessible to a wide range of users.

Customizable Security Settings: Users can adjust security levels to balance anonymity and usability, depending on their needs.

User Interface

The Tor Browser's interface is quite similar to Mozilla Firefox, which makes it easy for most users to navigate. It retains Firefox's familiar layout and includes features like bookmarks, history, and extensions. The primary difference is the Tor Button, which provides quick access to essential settings for anonymous browsing. While the interface may appear dated compared to modern browsers, it serves its purpose effectively.

Installation and Setup

Download: Visit the official Tor Project website and download the browser for your platform.

Install: Run the installer, and follow the on-screen instructions.

First Launch: Upon opening the browser, you can configure security settings and connect to the Tor network.

Ready to Use: Once connected, you're ready to browse the internet anonymously.

How to Use
  • Launch the browser.
  • Configure security settings if needed.
  • Connect to the Tor network using the Tor Button.
  • Browse the web as you normally would.
FAQ

Why does the new latest Tor Browser for Windows download say "portable"?
The installer works the same way, independently if one installs it on a stick or their local hard drive. It doesn't require an installer to make any changes to the system. As for why the redundant "-portable" name in the Windows installer? After all, the Windows installer has always been portable! The naming schemes for its various build artifacts have been made mutually consistent.

Is Tor Browser illegal?
No, using the Tor Browser is legal in most countries. However, some governments may restrict or monitor its usage, so be aware of local laws.

Is Tor Browser slower than other browsers?
Yes, it can be slower due to the added security measures and the routing of traffic through multiple nodes. However, it's a trade-off for increased privacy.

Can I use Tor Browser for streaming or downloading torrents?
While possible, it's not recommended, as Tor's primary purpose is anonymity and is not optimized for high-speed data transfer.

Are websites accessible on Tor Browser the same as on a regular browser?
In most cases, yes. However, some websites may block Tor exit nodes, making them inaccessible.

Can I use Tor Browser on my mobile device?
Yes, Tor Browser is available for Android devices as well.

Alternatives

Brave Browser: Known for its privacy features and built-in ad blocker.

Opera: Provides a free VPN service for added security and privacy.

Chromium: Safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.

DuckDuckGo Browser: Offers anonymous browsing and built-in privacy tools.

Pricing

The Tor Browser is completely FREE to download and use.

System Requirements
  • Windows: Windows 7 and later
  • macOS: OS X 10.9 and later
  • Linux: 32-bit and 64-bit systems
  • Android: Android 4.1 and later
PROS
  • Strong emphasis on privacy and anonymity
  • Multi-platform support
  • Customizable security settings
  • Free and open-source
  • Access to the Tor network
CONS
  • Slower browsing speed
  • Some websites may block Tor exit nodes
  • Outdated interface, but they are improving
Conclusion

Overall, the Tor Browser remains a powerful tool for individuals who prioritize online privacy and anonymity. While it may not be the fastest browser on the market, its ability to hide your online activities from prying eyes is unparalleled. Whether you're concerned about government surveillance, data tracking, or simply want to browse the web without being followed, the Tor Browser is a reliable choice.

Its open-source nature and widespread community support make it a crucial tool in the fight for online privacy. Just remember that while Tor Browser offers exceptional security, it's essential to stay informed about its limitations and legal implications in your region.

Also Available: Download Tor Browser for Mac

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What's new in this version:

All Platforms:
- Bug tor-browser#30543: compat: make spoofed orientation reflect spoofed screen dimensions
- Bug tor-browser#30862: 10ms time precision via EXSLT date-time function
- Bug tor-browser#41328: Follow firefox ESMify for Bug 1308512
- Bug tor-browser#42054: ESR128: investigate - thorin's list
- Bug tor-browser#42220: Flip all the possible preferences to prevent any automatic download
- Bug tor-browser#42255: pdfjs.disabled used to be part of RFP until Bug 1838415; lock pref to false in stable
- Bug tor-browser#42356: Review 000-tor-browser.js and 001-base-profile.js for 128
- Bug tor-browser#42601: Check Bug 1894779: Allow font-face urls to be resource:// urls and relax CORS for resource:// URLs
- Bug tor-browser#42611: Set clipboard.imageAsFile.enabled to false
- Bug tor-browser#42646: Drop patch for tor-browser#40166
- Bug tor-browser#42683: Create script to generate issue triage csv's from bugzilla query and git scraping
- Bug tor-browser#42684: Disable network prefetch
- Bug tor-browser#42685: compat: ESR128: enable textmetrics
- Bug tor-browser#42716: Disable unwanted about:* pages
- Bug tor-browser#42730: Make RemoteSettings use only local dumps
- Bug tor-browser#42746: Extend prefers-contrast rules to include forced-colors
- Bug tor-browser#42759: CI: remove localization file names that are in neither 14.0 nor 13.5 branches
- Bug tor-browser#42814: Opt out from Firefox relay by default.
- Bug tor-browser#42830: Enable WebAudio APIs
- Bug tor-browser#42831: Remove the shopping components
- Bug tor-browser#42867: Disable contentRelevancy component
- Bug tor-browser#43011: Ship only one copy of the MIT license, like upstream.
- Bug tor-browser#43012: Mixed content: browser requests HTTPS images from onion domain accessed via HTTP
- Bug tor-browser#43013: security.mixed_content.upgrade_display_content.image is true by default
- Bug tor-browser#43054: check bounceTrackingProtection in PB mode does not persist to disk
- Bug tor-browser#43074: Pass the browser to TorDomainIsolator.newCircuitForBrowser
- Bug tor-browser#43144: Ensure non-privacy browsing also sets the GPC header
- Bug tor-browser#43163: Disable offscreen canvas until verified it is not fingerprintable
- Bug tor-browser#43170: Disable user-agent spoofing in HTTP header
- Bug tor-browser#43178: Audit fingerprinting overrides (MozBug 1834274)
- Bug tor-browser#43184: Backport Bugzilla 1922294: RFP: fixup square spoofed orientation
- Bug tor-browser#43197: Disable automatic exception for HTTPS-First

Windows + macOS + Linux:
- Updated Firefox to 128.3.0esr
- Updated NoScript to 11.4.42
- Bug tor-browser#40147: Re-enable Picture-in-Picture mode
- Bug tor-browser#41309: Re-enable screenshots component
- Bug tor-browser#41811: Primary buttons that result in a connection attempt should be purple
- Bug tor-browser#41817: Add more color aliases that take dark mode into account
- Bug tor-browser#41820: Downloads warning styling improvements (use moz-message-bar)
- Bug tor-browser#42070: Backport Bugzilla 1834307 and hide smooth-scroll UX
- Bug tor-browser#42212: Fluent migration: onion services
- Bug tor-browser#42362: "New window" missing from File menu
- Bug tor-browser#42441: Evaluate RR version-by-RR version rebases instead of ESR-to-ESR
- Bug tor-browser#42488: ESR 128: Remove role="code" from tor circuit panel
- Bug tor-browser#42603: Remove safebrowsing URLs
- Bug tor-browser#42612: Re-implement moz-toggle customizations for ESR 128
- Bug tor-browser#42617: Restore the HTML form on DDG when using safest in 128
- Bug tor-browser#42629: Tweak isOnNewTabPage patch
- Bug tor-browser#42630: Review LaterRun in 128
- Bug tor-browser#42640: Disable Firefox Flame button due to unknown interactions with New Identity
- Bug tor-browser#42641: Move from panel-footer class to moz-button-group
- Bug tor-browser#42643: downloads panel separator has mismatched margin
- Bug tor-browser#42644: toolbar rules in panelUI-shared.css are unneccessary
- Bug tor-browser#42647: "Switching to a new device" regressed on 128
- Bug tor-browser#42653: The Neterror page has a checkbox to report iframe origin errors to TPO
- Bug tor-browser#42662: Use data-hidden-from-search for hiding the firefox connection settings
- Bug tor-browser#42663: Tor Browser "Connection" settings missing a tooltip
- Bug tor-browser#42665: Drop "Learn More" spacing
- Bug tor-browser#42667: Add description-deemphasized class to our additions to about:preferences
- Bug tor-browser#42679: Use a more robust approach to hide the "tracking protection" urlbar button
- Bug tor-browser#42687: Disable Privacy-Preserving Attribution
- Bug tor-browser#42695: Use --arrowpanel- variables for tor circuit panel spacing
- Bug tor-browser#42698: Bridge card background contrast is low for bridge-moji
- Bug tor-browser#42699: Drop level="top" attribute from panels
- Bug tor-browser#42700: Remove !nodes condition from gTorCircuitPanel._updateCurrentBrowser
- Bug tor-browser#42704: Drop the badged="true" attribute from security level button
- Bug tor-browser#42705: Update our preferences to account for new line height
- Bug tor-browser#42713: Some --in-content CSS variables were renamed/removed
- Bug tor-browser#42718: Remove the firefox-view button from UI, even when always-on private-browsing mode is disabled
- Bug tor-browser#42735: Disable recent search suggestions
- Bug tor-browser#42740: Stop trying to hide "Restore previous session"
- Bug tor-browser#42742: Inconsistent use of "New private window" vs "New window"
- Bug tor-browser#42743: Invalid onion sites are shown as secure in the page info window
- Bug tor-browser#42744: Light theme override for "about:tor" is inherited by chrome error pages.
- Bug tor-browser#42745: Remove some residuals from update scripts
- Bug tor-browser#42764: Unconditionally disable find-bar transition animation
- Bug tor-browser#42777: Remove 'Website Privacy Preferences' and ensure sensible default prefs
- Bug tor-browser#42803: Lost focus styling for built-in bridges radio options
- Bug tor-browser#42806: Use the lh CSS unit
- Bug tor-browser#42872: Disable translations until audited and solved the UX problems
- Bug tor-browser#43015: Missing region-name-skr fluent entry when fetching TorConnect country names
- Bug tor-browser#43067: Use html:link rather than xml-stylesheet in our dialogs
- Bug tor-browser#43071: Make sure "tor-button" elements that are also "primary" still use the tor colors
- Bug tor-browser#43072: moz-message-bar does not get announced on Orca screen-reader
- Bug tor-browser#43075: Should we drop link spacing in about:tor
- Bug tor-browser#43081: Remove hard-coded CSS line-height
- Bug tor-browser#43082: Search engine icon is not shown while typing in the address bar
- Bug tor-browser#43083: Backport fix for Mozilla 1436462
- Bug tor-browser#43087: Onion pattern on about:torconnect needs a dark theme asset
- Bug tor-browser#43103: Verify whether an update is unsupported before choosing one
- Bug tor-browser#43104: Local files and extensions can't be loaded in new windows before bootstrap
- Bug tor-browser#43105: Migrating Disconnect is not needed anymore
- Bug tor-browser#43109: Remove mention of Firefox Relay from settings
- Bug tor-browser#43115: Height of search bar has collapsed on about:tor
- Bug tor-browser#43117: Hide 'Always underline links' option
- Bug tor-browser#43118: hide CFR
- Bug tor-browser#43131: Reduce layout jank when loading about:tor
- Bug tor-browser#43134: Backport Bugzilla 1436226 Hardcode VP8/VP9
- Bug tor-browser#43164: Prevent search-bar from being auto-hidden when not used for awhile
- Bug tor-browser#43169: compat: align userAgent in navigator + HTTP Header
- Bug tor-browser#43174: Issue with custom home page on local filesystem
- Bug tor-browser#43209: UI freezes when clipboard is empty after screen lock
- Bug tor-browser#43217: Fullscreen videos have rounded letterboxing corners
- Bug tor-browser#43218: Switch to browser.reload, since Browser:Reload signal was dropped upstream
- Bug tor-browser-build#41248: Check and update bundled font versions

Windows + macOS:
- Bug tor-browser#43021: Revert the OS deprecation notification introduced in #42347

macOS:
- Bug tor-browser#42467: Make OS HTTP User-Agent OS spoofing configurable by pref

Windows:
- Bug tor-browser#43051: windows: remove UI for "open Tor Browser automatically when computer starts"

macOS:
- Bug tor-browser#42494: mac: add Arial Black and Arial Narrow to allowlist

Build System:
- Updated Go to 1.22.8
- Bug tor-browser#42722: clang-format and localization linters are not running
- Bug tor-browser#42799: Do not run lint pipelines on new tag
- Bug tor-browser#43014: Add purgecaches to the dev build
- Bug tor-browser#43156: Update translation CI to account for the extended 13.5 release
- Bug tor-browser#43157: Move tb-dev to base-browser
- Bug tor-browser#43181: Run translation CI if there is a change in a string.xml file
- Bug tor-browser-build#41013: Add a README to each project
- Bug tor-browser-build#41096: Set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the default env variables
- Bug tor-browser-build#41155: Update toolchains for ESR128
- Bug tor-browser-build#41156: Split the Rust configuration options
- Bug tor-browser-build#41180: Some files do not need to be copied when building tor-expert-bundle
- Bug tor-browser-build#41188: Upgrade binutils to 2.41
- Bug tor-browser-build#41189: Add matzfan to list of downstream projects in alpha release-prep template
- Bug tor-browser-build#41195: Update Go to 1.22
- Bug tor-browser-build#41198: Update release-prep issue template to include notifiying anti-censorship team of package name changes for GetTor distributor
- Bug tor-browser-build#41203: Tor Blog generation script uses the wrong url scheme for alpha releases
- Bug tor-browser-build#41236: Remove binutils when not needed
- Bug tor-browser-build#41273: relprep.py: bump Firefox and GV to a (yet) non-existing tag when the last one does not match HEAD
- Bug tor-browser-build#41274: Improve fetch_changelogs.py for major releases
- Bug tor-browser-bundle-testsuite#40078: Update tools/tb-build-06-start-nightly-build after tor-browser-build#40829
- Windows + macOS + Linux:
- Bug tor-browser#42668: Drop torconnect rule in eslint-plugin-mozilla
- Bug tor-browser-build#41247: Adapt tools/update-responses/update_responses to support multiple versions in the same xml files
- Bug tor-browser-build#41256: tools/signing/upload-update_responses-to-staticiforme should regenerate update-responses when it already exists
- Bug tor-browser-build#41259: Don't try to generate incrementals for versions which don't set incremental_from
- Bug tor-browser-build#41270: Add updater rewriterules to make 13.5.7 a watershed

Windows + macOS:
- Bug tor-browser-build#41197: Modify update-responses to prevent upgrades on unsupported Windows and macOS versions

Windows:
- Bug tor-browser-build#29318: Drop mingw-w64/gcc toolchain
- Bug tor-browser-build#29320: Use mingw-w64/clang toolchain to build Rust
- Bug tor-browser-build#41185: Drop Windows 7 support for 14.0 from build tools
- Bug tor-browser-build#41201: Bump the Windows version checked by the installer

macOS:
- Bug tor-browser-build#41267: Go dropping support for macOS

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