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Tor does not work on ARM MacOS Apple Silicon

See original GitHub issue

Description

This only affects MacOS on ARM64.

Tor lists “status: disconnected” when you launch tor window.

If Brave is launched from terminal, the output is such:

[4963:771:0112/221753.300180:ERROR:brave_new_tab_message_handler.cc(196)] Ads service is not initialized!
[4963:771:0112/221753.421653:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "Unchecked runtime.lastError: Not available in Tor/incognito/guest profile", source: chrome://newtab/ (0)
[4963:771:0112/221753.422358:ERROR:CONSOLE(0)] "Unchecked runtime.lastError: Not available in Tor/incognito/guest profile", source: chrome://newtab/ (0)

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Launch Brave
  2. Launch Incognito with Tor
  3. See status: disconnected and nothing is changed

Actual result:

Tor is running

Expected result:

Tor does not run

Reproduces how often:

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

1.18.78 and latest nightly as per today

Version/Channel Information:

  • Can you reproduce this issue with the current release?
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
  • Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Yes

Other Additional Information:

  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
  • Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
  • Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

No

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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jumdecommented, Jan 14, 2021
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paulmillrcommented, Feb 28, 2021

It works. Thank you.

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