Tor Browser 5.5 Gets an Official Release, Includes Tor 0.2.7.8 | Linux Today

Tor Browser 5.5 Gets an Official Release, Includes Tor 0.2.7.8

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Marius Nestor
Jan 27, 2016

There are numerous new features in Tor Browser 5.5, and among some of the most important ones, we can mention the implementation of a defense protocol against font enumeration attacks, further improvements to the keyboard fingerprinting defense, the ability to isolate Shared Workers to the first-party domain, the addition of a Japanese locale, and about:tor appearance polishing.

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Marius Nestor

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