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Somewhat slow here in Aus using Telstra 3G, 45 seconds to connect to TOR network and about 7-12 seconds to return search results form DDG. Good app though and am looking forward to browsing in privacy, thanks.

After having the app in the background for a few hours, I tried to use it to browse again but nothing happening. I had to force close the app and restart it to be able to use it. Is this normal and, if not, is this a known issue that is going to be corrected? Edit: in fact, it seems to do this as soon as my phone times out into auto-sleep :/

This is the biggest glaring bug on the app right now.[1] Doesn’t seem to always affect the app (~30% of the time) when backgrounding to another app or if the phone is manually locked, but more regularly (>75%) happens when the phone idle sleeps.

I’m trying to nail this down, but it’ll likely take me some time to find a real fix.

[1]: https://github.com/mtigas/iOS-OnionBrowser/issues/2

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