I’m one of the Tor Browser’s on Windows 7 users who got affected by the botched 13.0.7 release: couple of days ago my Tor Browser updated to it and stopped working. And it can’t update to 13.0.8 since it’s unable to find updates because it doesn’t connects to the TOR. So how should I update??? I don’t want to reinstall browser completely because I don’t want to loose my settings and extensions.
thorin
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just reinstall to the same path - it doesn’t overwrite the profile directory
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BobbyB
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A trick:
Once you have a good working version of Tor, copy the whole folder to a USB stick. The next time you update and there is a problem, you can then delete the folder from your desktop and copy the saved folder back to the destop.
if you go through another cycle of backups to the USB stick, remember to either rename the copy on the USB or delete it.
mar
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I’m on Win 7 as well and had the same issue.
Backup this directory which contains all your extensions(and configurations) and profile - Tor Browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser
Delete your base “Tor Browser” directory.
Download and install the fixed 13.0.8 version from - https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/13.0.8/tor-browser-windows-x86_64-portable-13.0.8.exe
Merge the Browser folder that you backed up into the new Tor Browser/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/
Everything will work again.
Cheers!
PS: It’s unlikely that I will be upgrading to Windows 10/11 . I’m gonna be on the lookout for Firefox ESR forks that will work on Windows 7, whose signature I may then modify to make it look like the official Tor Browser. And have it connect to the tor network using tor-expert-bundle.
Now if tor-expert-bundle stops working on Win 7, that’s when we’re doomed.
Vort
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I made builds of Snowflake, compatible with Windows 7:
snowflake-client-2.9.2-6d2011de-win7.7z: removed
snowflake-proxy-2.9.2-6d2011de-win7.7z: removed
To use client binary, broken file from Tor Browser, located at Tor Browser\Browser\TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\snowflake-client.exe
should be replaced with snowflake-client.exe
unpacked from snowflake-client-2.9.2-6d2011de-win7.7z
with 7-Zip.
EDIT: removed download links
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morgan
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users: don’t download and run random binaries from the internet, and definitely don’t swap out parts of your Tor Browser install with untrusted code.
@Vort: can you please open a merge-request on tor-browser-build with whatever build changes are needed? If you’ve managed to make newer version of Go compatible with legacy systems then you may have done the community a good service.
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Vort
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I can say how I made these binaries:
I just built Go 1.21.13 compiler with 9e43850a3298a9b8b1162ba0033d4c53f8637571 commit reverted
Then proceeded as usual.
Making such process in automatic way is not what I know how to do.
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