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Tor downloads are available for Android, Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Moreover, Tor can’t provide the utmost protection when it comes to media plugins, and they’re disabled by default. And if you’re doing more than searching, like streaming content or making a video call, odds are it’ll be even more laggy. It seems that speed is a common issue with the Tor browser, an unfortunate side effect of it being volunteer-run. The workaround for slow speed is to click the New Tor Circuit for This Site option in the upper-right menu, but that didn’t seem to speed anything up when we tried it. Searching with DuckDuckGo returned results in English, but it took several seconds to complete the search. When switching to Yahoo, the results came up in the wrong language, even though the browser was set to English. The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location, and it lets you access sites which are blocked.We encountered some language problems when trying to use Yahoo's search engine with Tor (Image credit: Yahoo) ** Also, includes NoScript and HTTPSEverywhere add-ons built in! In as many ways as possible, we adhere to the design goals of Tor Browser (), by supporting as much of their actual code as possible, and extending their work into the additional Android components of Firefox for Android. Orfox REQUIRES Orbot app for Android to connect to the Tor network.

Orfox is built from the same source code as Tor Browser (which is built upon Firefox), but with a few minor modifications to the privacy enhancing features to make them compatible with Firefox for Android and the Android operating system.

To experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship, download Tor Browser for Android from GooglePlay: Orfox will be sunsetted by early 2019 when the stable Tor Browser for Android comes out. The Tor Project has launched an official browser, Tor Browser for Android, now in its alpha release. Since 2015, Orfox has been the only mobile app recommended by the Tor Project to utilize the privacy protections of Tor on Android.