There are rare cases where the first-part isolation breaks if the Web developer Network tab is open. This got first reported on our blog: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-65a5-released#comment-224102 Steps to reproduce (works both in the stable and the alpha series on Linux at least): 1) Start a fresh Tor Browser and set the Torbutton log level to "3" 2) Open the Network tab in the Web developer console (Ctrl + Shift + Q) 3) Go to https://torproject.org 4) Reload the page with the arrow in the URL bar Result: Torbutton INFO: tor SOCKS isolation catchall: https://www.torproject.org/images/onion-heart.png via --unknown--:de6a28fb71abeba4febbbdde61de345e It is actually only the request for the onion heart that is affected. And having the Network tab open is crucial for reproducing the bug.