Tor Browser 16.0a10 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
⚠️ Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only. As such, Tor Browser Alpha is not intended for general use because it is more likely to include bugs affecting usability, security, and privacy.
Moreover, Tor Browser Alphas are now based on Firefox's betas. Please read more about this important change in the Future of Tor Browser Alpha blog post.
If you are an at-risk user, require strong anonymity, or just want a reliably-working browser, please stick with the stable release channel.
The Tor Project's old support page and content has been updated. Starting with Tor Browser 16.0a10, this updated design and content is now baked into the browser and replaces the legacy manual. You can access the manual directly by navigating to about:manual in the URL bar or by clicking on the various "Learn more" links found in the browser's UI.
With Tor Browser 16.0a10, we have enabled the new about:preferences designs from Mozilla by default. Our additional settings (connectivity, letterboxing, security level, etc) should now all be migrated over and using the new design language. Please file an issue if you find any regressions!
On most (all?) desktop operating systems, applications have the ability to programmatically set and update the title of their windows. Normally, this is very useful as it allows the names of your applications to appear in the desktop UI in the title bar or as entries in application switchers (e.g. when you alt-tab between applications).
Historically, web browsers have dynamically updated their application's window title to the contents of the current web page's <title> element.
For example, the window name for the browser window you are currently using is very likely some variant of New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a10 | The Tor Project — Tor Browser.
If you were to navigate away from this page (please don't), the title would be updated to some variant of that page's <title> element contents.
While this process provides convenient usability to end-users, these title changes are generally detectable and readable by 3rd party applications or the operating system itself. This is typically not a privileged action, meaning software does not typically require special permissions to do this. These same APIs which allow programs to enumerate open windows also allow them to record browsing history using window title changes as a side-channel.
To counteract this, we've developed (and upstreamed) an opt-in feature disabling these window title changes and instead replacing them with just the the name of the browser. You can try this feature out by going to about:preferences, clicking on Privacy and security in the navigation panel, clicking on Advanced settings within the Connection and software security group, and checking Use generic window titles in the Protections from third-party applications group. With this setting enabled, all Tor Browser window titles should now simply read Tor Browser Alpha.
For any vanilla Firefox users out there, you can enable this feature by going to about:config and setting the privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow (for normal-browsing windows) and privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow.pbm (for private-browsing windows) boolean options to false.
We had hoped to enable this feature by default in the 16.0 series, but it is a bit late in the release cycle to push out such a feature with potentially unseen side-effects (e.g. causing breakage with a11y software, specific desktop environments, or other custom configurations) without user testing. Please give this feature a go (especially if your desktop environment is non-standard) and report back any issues or incompatibilities you find.
If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know.
The full changelog since Tor Browser 16.0a9 is:
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