The Tor Project has released the new Tor Browser 12.0 based on Mozilla Firefox 102.5 ESR for more privacy and security when surfing the Internet. For the first time, the browser runs natively on the M1 and M2 processors from Apple and offers many innovations under Windows, macOS and Linux as well as Android.
Major update for Privacy Browser
About a year after the release of version 11 and about five months after the release of version 11.5, the Tor Browser, which is based on the popular open source browser Firefox, is getting another major release with numerous detailed improvements and a greatly expanded feature set.
Improvements for all platforms
The official release notes list the following new features:< /p>
In addition to the improvements associated with the release of Firefox 102.5 ESR (“Release Notes”), Tor Browser 12.0 switches to the current version 0.4.7.12 of the decentralized Tor network designed for the anonymization of connection data.
< h2 class="text-width text-h2" id="section_nativer_support_fuer_apple_silicon">Native support for Apple Silicon
In version 12, the Tor browser runs natively on Apple Silicon for the first time and thus no longer requires support from the Rosetta 2 x86-64 binary translation on the M1 and M2 processors.