[tor-talk] still unable to reach StartPage or Ixquick

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 10/7/2013 5:27 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:18:17PM -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote:
>> Haven't been able to reach StartPage or Ixquick sites or do search
>> for a week or more, in TBB 2.3.25-12.  Can't even reach their home
>> pages through another search engine, like Google or Yahoo.
>>
>> ** Are others able to access these 2 search engines in the *same TBB
>> version* as I'm using?  If so, maybe I need to re-extract the TBB
>> files & start over.
>>
>> TBB has been closed / restarted many times since problem began.
> Tor 0.2.3.x is not so fun to use these days:
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients
>
> I recommend trying the TBB 3.0a4 (assuming you're not on Win XP and you
> don't need pluggable transports):
> https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/tbb-30
>
> We'll hopefully declare Tor 0.2.4.x stable real soon now. We keep getting
> distracted though. Soon I hope! :)
>
Thanks, but - Whoa!  Tor 0.2.4.x isn't declared stable, so skip it - go 
straight to 3.0a?  I know it's got a lot of ? unproven as rock solid? 
features, but what about my secret "double naught" spying duties?
But, no XP here.

Anyway, what about others reaching Startpage & Ixquick using 2.3.25-12?  
If they're largely unreachable for others, no point in worrying about 
that - plenty of other stuff to occupy myself.