I’m having a similar problem loading the TOR browser. Can’t seem to get it to work on my system for some reason. Not a big deal because I don’t go to the dark web but I would still like it to be an option. On the other hand the dark web is good place to get hacked so maybe it’s a good thing.
Tell you what... Just getting into the Darkweb myself. And there is stuff in there you would never find on the normal web. They are scrubbing and hiding so much information it is incredible.
But I set up a VPN server through a static IP service and run TOR through an encrypted Mint clone virtual box. That’s three layers of security if you also count the safeguards in the TOR browser. That way if I get cooties in the VM I can just dump it and clone it again. It isolates and quarantines everything to that VM.