It is now available Tor Browser 12.5, a new version of the quintessential privacy web browser, which as you know is based on Firefox and the Tor network to offer its proposal. This release arrives, as usual, with little to its credit, but substantial enough to pick up and tell about.
First, some context in case you need it: Tor Browser is available for PC (Linux, Mac, Windows) and mobile (Android) and in both cases it is based on the ESR extended support version, so at launch it we are dealing with would be up to date with the news that Firefox 102 brought a year ago (Firefox ESR will be renewed with the next version of the browser, Firefox 115, scheduled for a couple of weeks and, later, it will be adopted by Tor Browser) .
As for the Tor network, it is an advanced connection masking system, the “onion routing”, which applied to the Tor browser and its particular configuration, as well as coherent rules of use, gives the user a powerful protection of your privacy when browsing the Internet. Other browsers with support for connecting to the Tor network apart from Tor Browser are Brave or the more recent Mullvad, a Tor project in collaboration with the Mullvad VPN.
Returning with Tor Browser 12.5, this release comes half a year after Tor Browser 12 with different new features and an accumulated number of security update fixes, although it should be noted that the latter occur permanently (usually once a month).
According to the official announcement of Tor Browser 12.5, of the new features that this version brings, the most outstanding is the Tor circuit renewal, now more accessible than ever in favor of accessibility, worth the redundancy. This circuit orders and lists the connection nodes from the browser to the website that is being visited and to see it in the simplest and clearest way possible, just click on its corresponding button at the beginning of the address bar.
Look at the turns that Tor Browser takes to connect to MC from Spain
This visualization also serves as a perfect example of how the aforementioned onion routing on which the Tor network is based works to hide the connection from the user.
Other new features in Tor Browser 12.5 include an improved connection experience, although this is not an option aimed at the common user who only wants to browse the Tor network from the moment they start the browser; a revamp of Tor connection icons on .onion sites; more accessibility improvements in various sections of the browser, including information pages or the operation of the screen reader; Finnish support and many fixes of all kinds are added.
Interested in trying Tor Browser? You have the download on the official site of the project.
