Tor Browser 7.5a6 is released

by boklm | October 20, 2017

Tor Browser 7.5a6 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release updates firefox to 52.4.1esr, Tor to 0.3.2.2-alpha, HTTPS-Everywhere to 2017.10.4 and NoScript to 5.1.2. This release is also fixing some crashes and adding a donation banner starting on Oct 23 in order to point to our end-of-the-year 2017 donation campaign.

The full changelog since Tor Browser 7.5a5 is:

  • All Platforms
    • Update Firefox to 52.4.1esr
    • Update Tor to 0.3.2.2-alpha
    • Update Torbutton to 1.9.8.2
      • Bug 23887: Update banner locales and Mozilla text
      • Translations update
    • Update HTTPS-Everywhere to 2017.10.4
    • Update NoScript to 5.1.2
      • Bug 23723: Loading entities from NoScript .dtd files is blocked
      • Bug 23724: NoScript update breaks Security Slider and its icon disappears
    • Bug 23745: Tab crashes when using Tor Browser to access Google Drive
    • Bug 23694: Update the detailsURL in update responses
    • Bug 22501: Requests via javascript: violate FPI
  • OS X
    • Bug 23807: Tab crashes when playing video on High Sierra
    • Bug 23025: Add some hardening flags to macOS build

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Anonymous (not verified) said:

October 20, 2017

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There's some bug in this version of the tor client that drives me nuts, even when I'm connected to my network at some point I get:

  1. [notice] Tor has not observed any network activity for the past 80 seconds. Disabling circuit build timeout recording.</p>
  2. <p>[warn] Failed to find node for hop #1 of our path. Discarding this circuit.<br />

And then I have to restart the browser so that Tor bootstraps again and starts working again. This happened with Tor 0.3.2.1 but it intensified a lot with the recent version (I'm using Tor with bridges FWIW) Hope this bug gets higher priority.

1stHOP The Same (not verified) said:

October 20, 2017

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Admin, my 1st hop is the same (Canada) everytime i use TOR. In the past there was a map of the hops and they were different everytime. The only way for me to change the first hop is to uninstall TOR and then reinstall. There has to be an easier way,

luweitest (not verified) said:

October 20, 2017

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Are there some document that could teach me to setup tor and meek for my existing Firefox? I downloaded TOR expert bundle and extracted meek from tor-browser but don't know how to chain them up.

ano (not verified) said:

October 21, 2017

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I'm currently using tails and I'm wondering if it's possible to install the experimental tor browser while keeping the stable tor browser?

jackd (not verified) said:

October 23, 2017

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torbrowser-install-7.5a6_en-US.exe gets multiple malware hits on virustotal.com
eGambit - malicious_confidence_74%
Rising - Malware.Heuristic!ET#100%
any need for concern? thx