Tor Browser 8.0a3 is released

by boklm | March 13, 2018

Tor Browser 8.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.

This release features important security updates to Firefox.

In addition to security updates to Firefox (52.7.0esr) this release includes newer versions of Tor (0.3.3.3), HTTPS Everywhere (2018.2.26), and obfs4proxy (0.0.7).

Apart from those component updates we are proud that this alpha is the first one containing Moat, which is a more robust way of getting bridges from torproject.org using the meek pluggable transport. Please try it out if you can and report any issues you find!

The full changelog since Tor Browser 8.0a2 is:

  • All platforms
    • Update Firefox to 52.7.0esr
    • Update Tor to 0.3.3.3-alpha
    • Update Tor Launcher to 0.2.15.1
      • Bug 23136: Moat integration (fetch bridges for the user)
      • Translations update
    • Update HTTPS Everywhere to 2018.2.26
      • Bug 25339: Adapt build system for Python 3.6 based build procedure
    • Bug 25356: Update obfs4proxy to v0.0.7
    • Bug 25147: Sanitize HTML fragments created for chrome-privileged documents
  • Windows
    • Bug 25112: No sandboxing on 64-bit Windows <= Vista

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Anonymous (not verified) said:

March 13, 2018

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Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to resource://gre/res/svg.css.Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to resource:///modules/DirectoryLinksProvider.jsm.Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to resource://gre/modules/Promise-backend.js.Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to moz-extension://5be9576e-e1ea-47f8-a97e-d69d52e62577/util.js.
Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to moz-extension://5be9576e-e1ea-47f8-a97e-d69d52e62577/rules.js.
Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to resource://gre/res/svg.css.Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to about:tor.
Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to chrome://devtools/skin/webconsole.css.Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{77b83c2a-2515-46bf-8f7c-fe5e62568742} may not load or link to chrome://devtools/skin/widgets.css.

Anonymous (not verified) said:

March 13, 2018

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Bug: can't open View -> Toolbars -> Customize, it closes immediately without letting you make any changes.

anon72 (not verified) said:

March 13, 2018

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Hi, thank you for all the work but now I can't customize toolbar, when I click on customize it just disappear.

goblin cheerleader (not verified) said:

March 13, 2018

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it would be nice if you could allow comments on TAILS release entries, every single announcement posted here seems to have no commenting allowed. Now why is that exactly? :P

C3PO (not verified) said:

March 15, 2018

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Thank you, the customize closes every time in 8.0.3, the workaround is to download 7.5.1. and it works fine now.

Barnstormer (not verified) said:

March 16, 2018

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I wish they would make an option for the most anonymous you can be, and yet still allow YT videos. That being said, I've found that certain plugins will allow you to down the vids, even though the page won't display. Just install the plugin, and go to the YT page. I don't use Norton. I use either Chrome, FF as a Tor Browser, or in an sandbox (i.e. Sandboxie); in concert with carefully chosen lists in Hostsman. I'm very careful about what I install and how I open attachments. I try to get installs from authors' websites. Haven't needed an AV in years. It's been 3-4 years since I've gotten malware - and they'd figured out how to create a new user acct. from a sandbox. No harm was evident. My computer runs much faster without an AV, and it costs a lot less.

jabaraj christopher (not verified) said:

March 16, 2018

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hi Team, why can't you release a Tor project as Orbot available for android which has a inbuilt VPN. We are put in to great difficulty in having a good free VPN, Available free VPNs in the net are for 3 days trails only .It is a hard task to remove / delete the free VPN after its expiry which poses some security threat .thanks n regards.

itsme (not verified) said:

March 17, 2018

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thanks for your great work!! :))

any one who recognized the "new" behaviour of TB too?
starting with version 8.0a2 the "hops" through tor network looking very often like this:

entry node: country A
middle node: B
exit node: B (same country different node of course)

And very often I get something like this: A A A

In earlier versions of TB I experienced something like A B C - it was normal to hop through different countries.

Why is TB focus on just one country ( A-A-A) as of version 8.0a2 ?