Yeah, it's worth looking for real alternatives to the Tor. This is already beginning to tire, I see more disadvantages than advantages.

The new tor has become a little faster and, which is very curious, on many sites they stopped prompting for captcha input when entering from the tor

Tor will give a full guarantee that you will not be found while you are doing something in the browser. And when you do something outside, or somehow compromise yourself or upload some files, then it is your own fault.

I believe that tor hides his identity perfectly, and in conjunction with vpn there is simply no chance of tracking you

Silk Road was closed in the Tor? Somehow we were able to figure out and close the site and people.

And if you use add-ons for firefox and configure them, is it essentially the same tor?

At least they possess themselves as a fully anonymous software for communication and web browsing. And I hadn't seen any negative reviews connected to this fact. The only complaint is that the app is a closed source. And for me, it's not a problem.

Perhaps it's the resources, but I got it a little faster.

Hmm, for me, too, closed source is not a problem. I use Adobe Photoshop, for example, and it also seems to be on closed source.

It's not the same thing, in Photoshop you provide just your photos if it doesn't scan the whole PC. And speaking about the soft where you provide more personal data, it would be nice to have all the data encrypted well enough. And how to check that? I have no idea.