In late 2007, we released the Firefox-based Tor Browser Bundle, which started to address those shortcomings. Additionally, while Tor provides good protections at the network level, Vidalia did not offer protections against tracking and privacy invasion that exploit the web browser itself. This solution had many issues–in particular, configuring your proxy settings inside of a browser to use Vidalia was not an easy, user-friendly task. You could use Vidalia to start a connection to the Tor network, and if you wanted to route your web browsing through Tor, you would need to configure your browser proxy settings to do so. In the beginning: a fork of Firefoxīefore Tor Browser existed, you may remember a little app called Vidalia. In this post, we want to share a little bit of Tor Browser history with you, the origins of our features and designs, and how many of our innovative privacy and security features have been adopted by other browsers. For many years, Tor Browser was the only web browser freely available that provided anything like its level of anti-tracking, anti-fingerprinting, and holistic privacy protections. Tor Browser allows millions of people to easily exercise their human right to privacy, within the framework of a familiar web browser.

You probably know that our user-facing product for providing privacy, safety, and security online is Tor Browser.

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