I'd really appreciate any advice on how to resolve this problem or what caused it.Tor enjoys a vibrant research community that examines anonymity attacks and defenses, design improvements, impact on society, and so on. I checked the PGP signatures of both archives multiple times to make sure they were not tampered with. I tried to reinstall with the newest (non-alpha) version available at and with an older version I had lying around. Reinstalling the Tor Browser doesn't help, all the problems I just mentioned persist. Changing those options to the default value doesn't help. Fresh installations of the Tor Browser also contain those values. I don't know if this is normal but I thought this might be relevant.