I compiled Tor browser from source code

[snow]

I could not find any arm64/aarch64 MODERN, up to date, Tor browser binaries.  Anything below current-stable would be considered insecure, and at a glance I couldn't find them anywhere.  So I was able to compile Nightly for the latest updates as well



It took 331 minutes, and failed 4 times along the way with 8GB RAM native on the device and 4GB ZFS to start.

It did a SIGKILL9 on firefox-glean.  Increased to 8gb, still failed until I increased ZFS to 16gb, and then even at a whopping 16gb it crashed next on GkRust for OOM/SIGKILL9 as well until increased ZFS to 32GB!

331 minutes later, it was succesful

Just wondering, to save myself from future punishment, was there some easier source for this app?

Thank you

Edited 7 hours ago by snow

[laibsch]

You fail to mention which OS and which release you are running.  https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble-updates/torbrowser-launcher is not working for you?  Frankly, I don't find 5 and a half hours of compilation time unbearable, but you could also look into using a Launchpad PPA to offload the compilation effort.

[Werner]

13 minutes ago, laibsch said:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/noble-updates/torbrowser-launcher is not working for you?

There is only amd64 download as far as I can see.

 

Yes, browser compilation takes crazy amounts of memory and computing time.

[c0rnelius]

Brave browser supports arm64 and has a "New private window with Tor" option.  Might be worth checking out.