Tor Browser 6.0.6 Adds Support for Tor 0.2.8.9, It's Based on Firefox 45.5.0 ESR

Immediately after the release of the Tails 2.7 anonymous Live CD, the Tor Project was pleased to announce the official availability of Tor Browser 6.0.6 open-source and cross-platform web browser for surfing the Web anonymously.

Tor Browser 6.0.6 is a minor, yet necessary maintenance update to the 6.x series of the Firefox-based browser, adding support for the latest stable Tor 0.2.8.9 anonymous network, as well as the latest Mozilla technologies. Tor Browser 6.0.6 is here one and a half months after the 6.0.5 point release and it looks like it's based on Firefox 45.5.0 ESR (Extended Support Release).

"We fixed a lot of usability bugs, some caused by Apple's macOS Sierra," reads the announcement. "We moved directly to DuckDuckGo as our search engine avoiding a roundtrip to Disconnect.me first. Finally, we added a donation banner shown in some localized bundled starting on Nov 23 in order to poi...