Once clicked, a status bar will appear, showing Tor's connection progress. In most cases, choosing "Connect" will allow you to connect to the Tor network without any further configuration. There's a checkbox which asks whether you always want to get automatically connected to the Tor network, if this is the case, check the box. This offers you the option to either connect directly to the Tor network, or to configure Tor Browser for your connection. If that’s the case, you will need to whitelist TOR in the app management section.When you start Tor Browser, you will see the Connect to Tor window. Some antivirus apps may flag TOR browser wrongly, blocking it from opening or working correctly. The other part of the solution is to disable antivirus and Malwarebytes on your computer temporarily before running TOR. We also recommend installing and running Malwarebytes (free version is good enough) as viruses and malware are two separate things. Run Microsoft Defender or your favorite 3rd-party antivirus app once to make sure it’s not a virus that’s causing TOR browser connection issues. Run and Disable Antivirus and Malwarebytes A simple phone call to your ISP should answer this. Note that you can still use TOR but would need to connect to a VPN first but that would further impact the browsing speed which is already slow in TOR. TOR browser disallows that leading to the possibility that your ISP might have blocked TOR browser altogether. ISPs collect data and monitor traffic that moves in and out of your system for various reasons. Add VPN to the mix with DuckDuckGo as your search engine and you have a pretty solid system in place until you fix TOR browser not working issue. It also has TOR feature baked in, however, works in a limited fashion. Use Brave+VPNĬontinuing from the last point, allow us to suggest an alternative to Firefox that’s equally good and privacy-focused, if not more, than Firefox – Brave browser.
If you are a regular Firefox user, this is not good news. If you don’t want to read the full article, the short answer is that you may have to close Firefox before TOR can run on your computer.