ma1 pushed to branch base-browser-128.3.0esr-14.0-1 at The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser
Commits: bdea242f by hackademix at 2024-10-14T12:56:11+02:00 fixup! Firefox preference overrides.
Bug 42356: Preference review for Firefox ESR128.
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1 changed file:
- browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js
Changes:
===================================== browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js ===================================== @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pref("startup.homepage_welcome_url.additional", ""); pref("browser.aboutwelcome.enabled", false);
#if MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL == release -// tor-browser#42640: Disable Firefox Flame buttond due to unknown interactions with New Identity +// tor-browser#42640: Disable Firefox Flame button due to unknown interactions with New Identity pref("browser.privatebrowsing.resetPBM.enabled", false, locked); #endif
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ pref("media.aboutwebrtc.hist.enabled", false);
// Disk Activity
-// Disable auto-downloaing to ~/Downloads and other download tweaks to minimize +// Disable auto-downloading to ~/Downloads and other download tweaks to minimize // disk leaks (tor-browser#42050). pref("browser.download.useDownloadDir", false); pref("browser.download.always_ask_before_handling_new_types", true); @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ pref("browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled", true); // disk leaks, e.g., in system logs. // For example, it happened that GNOME shell logged the window name that caused // JS errors/unexpected conditions for unrelated issues. -// TODO: Enable again after more UX considerations. +// TODO: commented out for now because of UX concerns, to be reconsidered in 14.5 // pref("privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow", false); // pref("privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow.pbm", false);
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ pref("dom.security.https_only_mode_pbm", true); // tor-browser#43197, defense in depth if ever https-only got disabled pref("dom.security.https_first_add_exception_on_failiure", false);
-// tor-browser#22320: Hide referer when comming from a .onion address +// tor-browser#22320: Hide referer when coming from a .onion address // We enable this here (rather than in Tor Browser) in case users of other // base-browser derived browsers configure it to use a system Tor daemon // to visit onion services. @@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ pref("toolkit.telemetry.bhrPing.enabled", false); pref("toolkit.telemetry.coverage.opt-out", true); pref("toolkit.coverage.opt-out", true); pref("toolkit.coverage.endpoint.base", ""); -pref("browser.ping-centre.telemetry", false); pref("browser.tabs.crashReporting.sendReport", false); pref("browser.crashReports.unsubmittedCheck.autoSubmit2", false); // Added in tor-browser#41496 even though false by default @@ -244,7 +243,6 @@ pref("services.sync.engine.passwords", false); pref("services.sync.engine.prefs", false); pref("services.sync.engine.tabs", false); pref("extensions.getAddons.cache.enabled", false); // https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/how-to-opt-out-of-add-on-metadata-updates/ -pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false); // Bug #16783: Prevent .onion fixups pref("privacy.donottrackheader.enabled", false); // (mullvad-browser#17) // Make sure there is no Tracking Protection active in Tor Browser, see: #17898. pref("privacy.trackingprotection.enabled", false); @@ -284,9 +282,7 @@ pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.telemetry", false); // Notice that null is between quotes because it is a JSON string. // Keep checked firefox.js to see if new entries are added. pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.cfr", "null"); -pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.whats-new-panel", "null"); pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.message-groups", "null"); -pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.snippets", "null"); pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.messaging-experiments", "null");
// Disable fetching asrouter.ftl and related console errors (tor-browser#40763). @@ -312,6 +308,10 @@ pref("browser.preferences.moreFromMozilla", false); // Disable webcompat reporter pref("extensions.webcompat-reporter.enabled", false);
+// Disable Content Analysis SDK (tor-browser#42364) +pref("browser.contentanalysis.enabled", false); +pref("browser.contentanalysis.default_result", 0); + // Disable contentRelevancy component (which itself is gated on Nimbus) (tor-browser#42867) pref("toolkit.contentRelevancy.enabled", false); pref("toolkit.contentRelevancy.ingestEnabled", false); @@ -455,12 +455,9 @@ pref("pdfjs.disabled", false, locked); #endif // Bug 40057: Ensure system colors are not used for CSS4 colors pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", false); -// tor-browser#41676: Set the TZ environment variable as a defense-in-depth. -// TODO: Remove this in ESR-128, as it has been removed in 116 with Bug 1837582. -pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting.testing.setTZtoUTC", true);
-// tor-browser#41943: lock and revisit after it gets flipped to true in stable Firefox -pref("javascript.options.spectre.disable_for_isolated_content", false, locked); +// tor-browser#41943: defense-in-depth, but do not lock anymore (enabled in Firefox 119, http://bugzil.la/1851162) +pref("javascript.options.spectre.disable_for_isolated_content", false);
// Third party stuff pref("privacy.firstparty.isolate", true); // Always enforce first party isolation @@ -510,27 +507,6 @@ pref("network.proxy.failover_direct", false, locked); // alters content load order in a page. See tor-browser#24686 pref("network.http.tailing.enabled", true, locked);
-// Make sure the varoius http2 settings, buffer sizes, timings, etc are locked -// to firefox defaults to minimize network performance fingerprinting. -// See https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/27128 -pref("network.http.http2.enabled", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.enabled.deps", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.enforce-tls-profile", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.chunk-size", 16000, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.timeout", 170, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.coalesce-hostnames", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.persistent-settings", false, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.ping-threshold", 58, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.ping-timeout", 8, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.send-buffer-size", 0, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.allow-push", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.push-allowance", 131072, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.pull-allowance", 12582912, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.default-concurrent", 100, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.default-hpack-buffer", 65536, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.websockets", true, locked); -pref("network.http.http2.enable-hpack-dump", false, locked); - // tor-browser#23044: Make sure we don't have any GIO supported protocols // (defense in depth measure). // As of Firefox 118 (Bug 1843763), upstream does not add any protocol by @@ -622,8 +598,8 @@ pref("extensions.htmlaboutaddons.recommendations.enabled", false); // Disable personalized Extension Recommendations in about:addons and // addons.mozilla.org pref("browser.discovery.enabled", false); -// Bug 26114: Allow NoScript to access addons.mozilla.org etc. -// TODO: Audit again (tor-browser#41445) +// tor-browser#26114: Allow NoScript to work on addons.mozilla.org and other Mozilla sites. +// Revisited and confirmed in tor-browser#41445. pref("extensions.webextensions.restrictedDomains", ""); // Don't give Mozilla-recommended third-party extensions special privileges. pref("extensions.postDownloadThirdPartyPrompt", false); @@ -655,16 +631,16 @@ pref("browser.menu.share_url.allow", false, locked);
// Disable special URL bar behaviors pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites", false); +pref("browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.enabled", false); +pref("browser.urlbar.richSuggestions.featureGate", false); +pref("browser.urlbar.yelp.featureGate", false); +pref("browser.urlbar.mdn.featureGate", false);
// tor-browser#41884: Do not start a search when clicking on the new tab button // with the middle mouse button (to prevent searching for anything you might // have selected or already in your clipboard). pref("browser.tabs.searchclipboardfor.middleclick", false);
-// Skip checking omni.ja and other files for corruption since the result -// is only reported via telemetry (which is disabled). See tor-browser#40048. -pref("corroborator.enabled", false); - // tor-browser#41417: do not allow live reload until we switch to Fluent and // stop using .textContent. // Even after that, it might be a good idea to keep it off, as it is not handled @@ -682,7 +658,7 @@ pref("privacy.query_stripping.strip_on_share.enabled", true); pref("privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled", true); pref("privacy.globalprivacycontrol.pbmode.enabled", true);
-// Disable platform text recogniition functionality (tor-browser#42057) +// Disable platform text recognition functionality (tor-browser#42057) pref("dom.text-recognition.enabled", false);
// Log levels
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