Tor Browser Downloader - Failed to download [SSL connect error]

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I am aware of the topic posted recently with the same issue, but nothing I tried from there worked!

I did a fresh reinstall of Virtual box + Whonix today. Once set up, I ran the whonix check and did all the Konsole updates that it required.

The problem i’m having is with tor browser.
When I open it, it tells me it is not installed, so I ran the Tor Browser Downloader.
The dowloader gave me a “Failed to download: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/RecommencedTBBVersions” error.

At the bottom of the error window it says,
“(Debugging information: curl_status_message: [35] - [SSL connect error. The SSL handshaking failed.])”

The only solution I have yet to try, is downloading manually… In order to do that, I need to access the “Mannually Downloading Tor Browser” wiki page. I obviously can’t do that because tor browser is not installed. So the only option is to use the Firefox ESR browser that’s built into the workstation.

Unfortunately I cant even proceed past the first step in manually downloading Tor Browser, which is:
“Navigate to http://rqef5a5mebgq46y5.onion and dowload the Tor Browser for Linux.”
How am I supposed to open that onion link without tor browser? When I click the link using Firefox ESR, I get “Server not found.”
I’m guessing because onion links cant be opened with Firefox… So i’m stuck!

I’m still new to this stuff so thanks in advance for the help!

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Hi GuyInTheSky

This page lists all the Tor Project .onion services and the clearnet equivalent. https://onion.torproject.org/

The page you are looking for (Tor Browser Download)

https://dist.torproject.org/

You can use the same thread to post . Even if its not identical as long as its the same issue i.e. “Tor Browser Download- Failed…”

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Firefox can connect to onions in Whonix.

Try:

Set

network.dns.blockDotOnion

To

false

This could use a documentation enhancement (Whonix 14 requires the user
to apt-get install firefox-esr to do that).