For Windows
Gå til Tor Browser download side.
Download the Windows .exe
file.
(Recommended) Verify the file's signature.
When the download is complete, double click the .exe
file. Complete the installation wizard process.
For macOS
Gå til Tor Browser download side.
Download the macOS .dmg
file.
(Recommended) Verify the file's signature.
When the download is complete, double click the .dmg
file. Complete the installation wizard process.
For GNU/Linux
Gå til Tor Browser download side.
Download the GNU/Linux .tar.xz
file.
(Recommended) Verify the file's signature.
Now follow either the graphical or the command-line method:
Graphical method
When the download is complete, extract the archive using an archive manager.
You'll need to tell your GNU/Linux that you want the ability to execute shell scripts.
Gå til den nyeste udpakkede Tor Browser mappe.
Right click on start-tor-browser.desktop
, open Properties or Preferences and change the permission to allow executing file as program.
Double-klik på ikonet for, at starte Tor Browser for første gang.

Note: On Ubuntu and some other distros if you try to launch start-tor-browser.desktop
a text file might open up.
To change this behavior and launch Tor Browser instead, follow this:
- Launch "Files" (GNOME Files/Nautilus)
- Click on Preferences.
- Navigate to the 'Behavior' Tab.
- Select "Run them" or "Ask what to do" under "Executable Text Files".
- If you choose the latter click on "Run" after launching the
start-tor-browser.desktop
file.

Command-line method
When the download is complete, extract the archive with the command tar -xf [TB archive]
.
From inside the Tor Browser directory, you can launch Tor Browser by running:
./start-tor-browser.desktop
Note: If this command fails to run, you probably need to make the file executable. From within this directory run: chmod +x start-tor-browser.desktop
Some additional flags that can be used with start-tor-browser.desktop
from the command-line:
Flag |
Description |
--register-app |
To register Tor Browser as a desktop application. |
--verbose |
To display Tor and Firefox output in the terminal. |
--log [file] |
To record Tor and Firefox output in file (default: tor-browser.log). |
--detach |
To detach from terminal and run Tor Browser in the background. |
--unregister-app |
To unregister Tor Browser as a desktop application. |
See here on how to update Tor Browser.