However there are practical benefits too: adhering to platform conventions provides better consistency, discernible application and installer icons help prevent user error, and attracting new users benefits everyone because anonymity loves company.įor the past year we've been working on a significant rewrite of Tor Browser's back-end, which recently provided us with the opportunity to rebuild one of the few internal pages that hasn't changed in a while: the homepage (often referred to by its internal reference, 'about:tor'). One of the motivations behind work like this is our philosophy that privacy-preserving products shouldn't be purely utilitarian, but can also spark joy. Given the community's involvement in its selection, its recognizability by netizens, and the simple fact that we still love the existing icon, we chose to focus on refining rather than replacing it entirely. While getting up to speed with the current requirements for each platform, we identified a number of gaps with Tor Browser too, and started working on new icons for Tor Browser in parallel.įor context, Tor Browser's current icon (sometimes referred to as the 'onion logo') was selected by community poll over four years ago to succeed the older purple and green globe in Tor Browser 8.5. What's new? Refreshed application iconsĮarlier this year we spent some time artworking the Mullvad Browser logo into the various assets needed to support its release – including application, installer and document icons that conform to each platform's conventions.

This change promises to improve performance significantly for people who use screen readers and other assistive technology. While eagle-eyed users may notice small visual changes to the user interface (for example, internal links are now underlined), Tor Browser 13.0 is our first release to inherit the redesigned accessibility engine introduced by Mozilla in Firefox 113. Particularly notable are the accessibility improvements we've gained as a result of the transition to Firefox ESR 115. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our Gitlab instance. As part of this process we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we review Firefox's changelog for issues that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users and disable any problematic patches where necessary. This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 115, incorporating a year's worth of changes shipped upstream. Tor Browser 13.0 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and our distribution directory.

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