Its main purpose is to circumvent censorship by concealing its users' identities and their online activity from surveillance and traffic analysis. Tor Browser automatically starts the Tor background processes and routes traffic through the Tor network sensitive data like cookies and the browsing history are removed upon closing the browser. It's a modified version of Mozilla Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) that includes TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extensions, and the Tor proxy. This is usually when I realize that I am using Tor.Tor Browser, previously known as Tor Browser Bundle, is a web browser that protects your privacy while you are surfing the Internet. Some sites, mine included block Tor sites. Now the WinDoze version of Tor is exiting from Germany. You will now have the same screen as the macOS version and the Ubuntu 19.04. If you want, you can launch Tor and you can shortcuts as necessary.

Launch you favorite browser (for now at least) and point to click on the Download Tor Browser button on the right.Ĭhoose the path you want to install it on. Here we can see that my exit node is on France. Depending on your Internet speed, this should take a couple of minutes. Once you launch Tor, you will see the Download taking place. Once again, we will need to Choose Activities and search for Tor Next you will need to run an update of the software.įinally, we need to run sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher You will need to hit the Enter key at this point to accept the install. Now you will need to download the tor-browser from a specific repository. You will need to run sudo apt-get install tor You will need to use sudo to run the apt-get utility with elevated privileges. You can do this in the same way you searched for Settings only this time, search Terminal

Then choose Settings icon (Gear, see above).

Let’s make sure what version we are running. I figured I would do a post on installing Tor for Ubuntu Linux 19.04 and Windows 10. I got a lot of feedback about other OS’s. Yesterday I wrote a post about installing Tor on macOS. Installing Tor on Ubuntu 19.04 and Windows 10

Installing tor browser