We can’t deny that Chrome works great on Chromebooks, for obvious reasons. However, we may be interested in improving our privacy. If this is the case, then we recommend install Tor browser on Chromebooka process that is quite simple.
Tor offers a private network to route traffic securely and has a huge number of features focused on security and privacy. If we are users aware of the risks of exposing our private data on the internet, we will surely appreciate what the Tor browser has to offer.
Guide to Install Tor Browser on Chromebook
Tor Browser is not officially available on the Play Store for Chromebooks. Therefore, we are going to have to enable and use the Linux container in order to download the application.
Set up Linux on Chromebook
The first thing we will have to do is open the Settings page by clicking on the gear-shaped icon found in the Quick Settings panel.
Now we will click on Advanced in the left panel and expand the menu.
After this we go to Developers. In the event that we have a school issued Chromebook and the Developers menu is not available, we will need to contact our school administrator.
After accessing the developers menu, we will have to click Activate next to Linux Development Environment (Beta).
A configuration dialog opens. Simply, we will have to click on the Install button to start the process.
Next, we are going to have to enter our desired username for Linux and choose Custom. Thanks to this, we can choose how much space we are going to allocate for Linux. In our case, we have an internal storage of 64 GB, so we decided to allocate 25 GB. If we have more storage capacity, we can allocate more.
Installation will take a few minutes. After the process is finished we can run Linux and use the Linux Terminal on our Chromebook. Inside the application drawer we will find the Terminal.
Install Tor Browser via Linux on Chromebook
The first thing we will have to do is open the Terminal from the application drawer. We will need to run the following command to update the Linux container to the latest packages and dependencies.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Next, we are going to need to run the following command in Terminal in order to use the Debian Backports package repository.
echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
After executing the previous command, we are going to proceed to install the Tor browser on our Chromebook with the following command.
sudo apt install torbrowser-launcher -t buster-backports -y
Once the installation is done, we are going to find the Tor Browser shortcut in the Linux folder from the app drawer.
When we open Tor for the first time, we will see that it will check for new versions. When finished, we will do the same as the previous step and we will have the browser ready to use.
