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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: UK Stealth on February 20, 2013, 06:39 pm
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Hi there was a update to Tor today, as usual went ahead and reinstalled Tor version. 2.3.25-2 now every time a restart it i keep getting update page saying its out of date and get new version, the only way for me to get around this atm is do a fresh install every time to get the green light .
Starting to stress me out now :P
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I don't know what you downloaded or what you saw, but there was no update to the Tor Browser Bundle today. 2.3.25-2 is from a month ago, give or take. Your problem happened to me once as well. I found it equally as disturbing. I changed the "show homepage at startup" setting. Started up and found it changed back.
So I changed the homepage itself. Started the program again and found it changed back. So I said "fuck this," deleted every trace of it from my computer, downloaded a new copy and installed it and it's never happened again. I still don't know why it happened. There seems to be some update-checking program that runs before Firefox ESR (the Tor Browser), and I assume that if it can't connect to whatever update service they use, it says you need to update.
I didn't bother looking into it and I really hope that isn't right, because it sounds awfully stupid for a privacy-oriented browser... but hey, whatever. That's my fix. Uninstall and reinstall a fresh downloaded copy; worked for me.
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Thanks but yes i have done uninstall several times as i have to do it every time i need to use it .
Is there any preferences/ hidden stuff on my pc i need to remove?.
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Well it's called the Tor browser "bundle" because it's actually 3 programs in one package: Firefox ESR (browser), Tor (the proxy thing that hides our identities), and Vidalia (a graphical controller for Tor). They could all have settings. I use Linux, so when I say I "uninstalled" it, what I mean is I fucking nuked the entire tiny little part of my hard drive that I had it sitting inside of.
If the uninstall doesn't remove Windows registry entries though, even that won't remove all traces of the program (including a possibly corrupt version number that's causing it to think you need to update). In short, removing all traces of if if the uninstall program doesn't work properly is really complicated and time consuming. Personally I'd just live with it.
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this shit has been happening to me since I got Tor. I tried the uninstall then install to no avail. I've just been living with it as mentioned above. However, I know its best to always have the most recent version so my fear is there's going to be some really important update one day that I don't get because I think its just doing what it normally does. oh well. probably not a huge deal.
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Ive been getting this too all of a sudden, it has something to do with the devs releasing a bad version then making everyone re-update to an older version. Ive not updated yet, best just to ignore it till they change version numbers again.
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It's still happening but at least its not just me with this problem i hope there is a fix soon.
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same problem over here... hope they'll soon fix it!
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This issue is with how check.torproject.org detects your TBB version. Sometimes they forget to update it or there's a bug in how it detects the version.
It usually gets fixed within a few hours but sometimes not for a few days.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. Unless there is a critical security vulnerability -- which in this case there isn't -- if your old (or new) TBB is working fine, just use it.
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I'm not as teckkie as SS, but in my simplified mind, I just deleted anything that has "TOR" in the name. Then I went to www.torproject.org (from my regular browser) and downloaded the latest version from there. Seems to have worked. Hope it does for anyone else. I realize the OP is from a week ago.