Hello all,
I am pretty new here, maybe 5-6 months into the whole thing, but I have never run into this problem before, for awhile my Tor browser would load, but I would not be able to search anything in the URL bar. no matter what I would type in, I would hit enter and it would go back to about:tor and not load a thing. The only thing that worked was startpage to search and even then the links it showed wouldn't come up. Now my tor connection status is stuck on "Please wait while we establish a connection to the Tor network." Any help please?
Try uninstalling Tor, redownloading the latest Tor browser bundle, and reinstalling. I had this problem a few months ago and I weirdly just had to reinstall Tor every time I wanted to use it until their next update which somehow fixed it.