A little birdie left a comment saying there was an unofficial Tor Browser Bundle for Tiger and Leopard at sourceforge.net/projects/osxpowerpcpackages. Given that I wrote a long torturous post about how to use Tor without the bundle since Tor officially dropped PowerPC, I naturally wanted to check this out.
- Download for OS X Signature. Android Tor Browser 10 is under active development. Watch for its release in the coming weeks. Read the latest release announcements. If you are in a country where Tor is blocked, you can configure Tor to connect to a bridge during the setup process.
- The Tor application on OS X stores user data into its bundle (TorBrowser.app/Data/). This causes various issues: the Tor application can't be code sign which decreases the security. See Ticket #13251: CodeSign Tor for OS X when installing a new version of Tor.
The tor browser bundle is in a sense a modified version of FireFox. Due to this, when your computer is telling you only one FireFox can be run at a time, it's because Tor counts as a FireFox app. Tor users aren't necessarily shady characters or people prone to wearing tin-foil hats. I downloaded the Vidalia Bundle for OS X. This includes Tor, Vidalia (a Tor GUI ), Torbutton (a Firefox tool to control your use of Tor), and Privoxy (a filtering web proxy) into one package, with everything ready to work together.
The packages in this directory are UNOFFICIAL builds of the Tor Browser Bundle for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5), PowerPC architecture. Optimized builds are available for the different PowerPC versions, namely, the G3, G4 (7450) and G5.As said, it's a bit outdated so it's more proof of concept, but everything works. It all comes in one app bundle, and inside it are Vidalia and Firefox, with Firefox having its own profile in TorBrowser.app/Library/Application Support/, so you can run this side-by-side with TenFourFox with no problems.
The bundle is based on the official Tor Browser Bundle with changes to make it work on older Mac OS X versions and the PowerPC architecture. Most notably, Qt is downgraded to the last Mac OS X 10.4 compatible version (4.7.4) and Firefox is patched with suitable parts from the TenFourFox changeset.
Note that the 2.3.25-15 bundle version is already outdated. More current version based on Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is in the works.
It also sets your user agent to the default Tor user agent, has private browsing enabled, and sets
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to 'true,' so all your bases are covered. It comes with two add-ons, HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript. NoScript is set to allow scripts by default, so you want to click the 'Forbid Scripts' option.
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- Download for OS X Signature. Android Tor Browser 10 is under active development. Watch for its release in the coming weeks. Read the latest release announcements. If you are in a country where Tor is blocked, you can configure Tor to connect to a bridge during the setup process.
- The Tor application on OS X stores user data into its bundle (TorBrowser.app/Data/). This causes various issues: the Tor application can't be code sign which decreases the security. See Ticket #13251: CodeSign Tor for OS X when installing a new version of Tor.
The tor browser bundle is in a sense a modified version of FireFox. Due to this, when your computer is telling you only one FireFox can be run at a time, it's because Tor counts as a FireFox app. Tor users aren't necessarily shady characters or people prone to wearing tin-foil hats. I downloaded the Vidalia Bundle for OS X. This includes Tor, Vidalia (a Tor GUI ), Torbutton (a Firefox tool to control your use of Tor), and Privoxy (a filtering web proxy) into one package, with everything ready to work together.
The packages in this directory are UNOFFICIAL builds of the Tor Browser Bundle for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5), PowerPC architecture. Optimized builds are available for the different PowerPC versions, namely, the G3, G4 (7450) and G5.As said, it's a bit outdated so it's more proof of concept, but everything works. It all comes in one app bundle, and inside it are Vidalia and Firefox, with Firefox having its own profile in TorBrowser.app/Library/Application Support/, so you can run this side-by-side with TenFourFox with no problems.
The bundle is based on the official Tor Browser Bundle with changes to make it work on older Mac OS X versions and the PowerPC architecture. Most notably, Qt is downgraded to the last Mac OS X 10.4 compatible version (4.7.4) and Firefox is patched with suitable parts from the TenFourFox changeset.
Note that the 2.3.25-15 bundle version is already outdated. More current version based on Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 is in the works.
It also sets your user agent to the default Tor user agent, has private browsing enabled, and sets
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to 'true,' so all your bases are covered. It comes with two add-ons, HTTPS Everywhere and NoScript. NoScript is set to allow scripts by default, so you want to click the 'Forbid Scripts' option.Tor Browser Bundle Download For Mac Os X
Basically all you need to do is start the application, watch Vidalia establish a connection until Firefox opens to a page announcing you're browsing anonymously. Easy like it's supposed to be.Download Tor Browser For Mac
I'm also intrigued by the account name on that Sourceforge page. It's called 'OS X PowerPC Packages' with the description, 'A repository providing binaries of open source packages built for OS X Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) PowerPC.' So maybe there'll be more in the future.
