Step one — install the Tor Browser
Download the Tor Browser from the Tor Project's own website. The Tor Project publishes installers for Windows, macOS and Linux on the same page; pick the one that matches the machine you are reading this on. Do not download Tor through a search engine result that is not the Tor Project directly — typosquats around the Tor Project domain have hosted backdoored installers in the past, and the only reliable check is the URL bar.
The installer is straightforward — accept the default install path and let it finish. The first launch shows a Connect button; click it and wait. The Tor Browser builds a connection, which can take ten to thirty seconds on a fresh install. When the home screen appears, you are routed through Tor.
Step two — set the security slider to Safest
Open the shield icon in the Tor Browser toolbar and pick the Safest security level. That setting disables JavaScript globally, disables a handful of font and image features that have been used in fingerprinting attacks, and keeps the browser at a sensible default for an onion marketplace session. The Awazon Market storefront is built to function with JavaScript off; you do not need to relax this setting to log in, browse, deposit or place an order.
Step three — copy a verified onion URL
Return to this portal and click the Copy button on any row of the mirror panel. The full address with the http:// scheme is placed on the clipboard. Switch to the Tor Browser, click the address bar, paste with the keyboard shortcut and press return. The Awazon Market login screen appears after a brief connection delay; that delay is the Tor Browser building a path to the onion service for the first time.
Step four — verify the address bar
Confirm that the URL in the address bar begins with the six characters a, w, a, z, o, n. Confirm that the address has no typos compared to the URL on the mirror panel. If anything in the address looks unfamiliar — a different number, an extra letter, a strange prefix — close the tab and start again. The Tor Browser does not auto-correct onion URLs; if the address bar shows a different URL than the one you copied, an intermediate app rewrote it on the way, which is itself a problem worth investigating before continuing.
Step five — log in or register
On the login screen, sign in if you already have an Awazon Market account or click the Register link to create one. The captcha on the login page is solved by typing the visible characters into the captcha input; the registration captcha works the same way. Pick a long unique passphrase — four or five random words separated by spaces is the friendlier shape; sixteen or more random characters is the dense shape — and save the mnemonic the registration page shows you exactly once. The mnemonic is the only recovery path; the storefront cannot recover an account for you out of band.
Step six — turn on two-factor authentication
Open the Settings page from the account menu and turn on two-factor authentication before doing anything else with the account. Any TOTP authenticator app accepts the QR code the settings page shows; you can also configure a PGP challenge as a backup. With two-factor on, a successful login from a fresh Tor session fires a second prompt, which is the line of defence against a credentials leak that you cannot ever close after the fact.
Step seven — fund the wallet
Open the Wallet page from the account menu. Three coin cards appear — Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero. Pick a coin, copy the deposit address from the address field, and send a small first amount from an external wallet. The deposit appears as pending immediately and credits after the confirmation count for that coin (three for Bitcoin and Litecoin, ten for Monero). The Payments page covers confirmation behaviour and the BIP21 deposit URI in more detail.
Step eight — browse and place an order
Once the deposit credits, browsing is straightforward. Filter by category, read the listing carefully and check the vendor's recent feedback before committing. An order placed at checkout enters the multisig escrow automatically; the funds are protected from that moment forward. After delivery confirm and release, or open a dispute if the order has a problem. The Escrow page walks through the contract that holds the funds between deposit and release.
What can go wrong on a first visit
The most common stumble is opening the mirror URL in a regular browser by mistake. Regular browsers do not resolve onion addresses; the URL fails with a generic DNS error. Switch to the Tor Browser tab and paste the URL there. The second most common stumble is a stuck Tor connection on a fresh install; closing and reopening the Tor Browser clears it. The third is a typo introduced by an intermediate notes app between Copy and Paste; copy directly from the mirror panel to the Tor Browser address bar and the typo cannot happen.
If a mirror does not respond
Open the next mirror row. Three or four independent onion paths exist so that a congested path is not a blocker. Wait a few seconds before retrying; the Tor Browser sometimes builds a fresh connection on first contact, which adds a noticeable pause. If every mirror refuses to load, check the Tor Browser connection status before assuming the storefront is offline; a stuck client-side connection produces the same symptoms as a real outage.