Hi,
since my instance auto-updated a week ago, I (once again) experience minute-long lags (“response times”) of the Tor browser.
It’s not actually a “freeze”, as the browser in general keeps responding: I can open tabs, request URLs, enter the menus etc.
The “lag” means:
- I request a website (URL), and the browser starts indicating the “busy / waiting” state. This is similar to unresponsive server, or a slow Tor connection/circuit. But THIS IS NOT the case:
- I can open various tabs, requesting different servers / websites. All will indicate “waiting” for response, for about 1-2 minutes. Then, all of them at once (within 1-2 seconds) will finish loading and rendering. This pattern continues with each additional request.
- Tampermonkey: strangely, the AddOn also is affected. I click on it in the Toolbar, in order to access my scripts. BUT the drop-down menu does mot open at all. instead, it shows the “busy / waiting” symbol, but never comes back. (I have not been waiting longer than 30 sec)
I’ve already done fresh “install” of portable Tor in a fresh folder. Interestingly, it worked fine RIGHT AFTER the installation. But after starting it a second time, it showed the very same LAG behavior described above.
System Info:
- Win 10 : Operating System you are using
- also, onboard Firewall and AntiVir is plain vanilla Microsoft
- v13.0.6 portable 64bit : Tor Browser version
- Standard : Tor Browser Security Level
- below : Step by step of how you got to the issue, so we can reproduce it (e.g. I opened the browser, typed a url, clicked on (i) icon, then my browser crashed)
- attached : The Tor log
History: Interestingly, this same issue had happened once in the past, a few months ago. Then I’ve been using 32bit version of Tor, and decided to install 64bit version - which had done the trick by then. Later on, I found that the 32bit version also had “recovered” and returned working again.
Thanks for your inputs and ideas on how to solve my problem !
Tor Log:
2023-12-13 14:02:01.403 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
2023-12-13 14:02:01.477 [NOTICE] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-12-13 14:02:01.477 [NOTICE] Opened Socks listener connection (ready) on 127.0.0.1:9150
2023-12-13 14:02:01.477 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 5% (conn): Connecting to a relay
2023-12-13 14:02:01.525 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): Connected to a relay
2023-12-13 14:02:01.563 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): Handshaking with a relay
2023-12-13 14:02:01.641 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 15% (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done
2023-12-13 14:02:01.641 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 75% (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits
2023-12-13 14:02:04.068 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 90% (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits
2023-12-13 14:02:04.068 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 95% (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit
2023-12-13 14:02:05.946 [NOTICE] Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done