henry pushed to branch base-browser-147.0a1-16.0-2 at The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser Commits: bd8b1473 by Henry Wilkes at 2026-01-27T13:44:27+00:00 fixup! Firefox preference overrides. TB 44460: Update the autofill preferences in line with upstream's new preferences. - - - - - d3a28ae3 by Henry Wilkes at 2026-01-27T13:44:28+00:00 BB 44460: Hide the autofill preferences. - - - - - 2 changed files: - browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js - browser/components/preferences/privacy.inc.xhtml Changes: ===================================== browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js ===================================== @@ -83,8 +83,18 @@ pref("signon.rememberSignons", false); pref("browser.formfill.enable", false); pref("signon.formlessCapture.enabled", false); // Added with tor-browser#41496 pref("signon.autofillForms", false); +// NOTE: extensions.formautofill.available is a legacy preference that upstream +// has not removed yet, and is only used for a migration to the newer +// "*.supported" preferences. See bugzilla bug 1745248. pref("extensions.formautofill.available", ""); +// Suppress formautofill component. tor-browser#44460. +// NOTE: With the "formautofill" built-in extension removed from Base Browser +// builds, some of these preferences have almost no effect at the time of +// implementation, but we include them in case they help with future-proofing. +pref("extensions.formautofill.addresses.supported", "off"); +pref("extensions.formautofill.addresses.experiments.enabled", false); pref("extensions.formautofill.addresses.enabled", false); +pref("extensions.formautofill.creditCards.supported", "off"); pref("extensions.formautofill.creditCards.enabled", false); // Do not store extra data (form, scrollbar positions, cookies, POST data) for // the session restore functionality. ===================================== browser/components/preferences/privacy.inc.xhtml ===================================== @@ -560,7 +560,14 @@ <!-- The form autofill section is inserted in to this box after the form autofill extension has initialized. --> +<!-- This is configured by FormAutofillPreferences.sys.mjs via + - FormAutofillStatus. But since the "autofill" extension is excluded from the + - build, FormAutofillStatus is never initialised. So we add the would-be + - data-hidden-* attributes explicitly here instead. + - See tor-browser#44460. --> <groupbox id="formAutofillGroupBox" + data-hidden-from-search="true" + data-hidden-by-setting-group="" data-category="panePrivacy" data-subcategory="form-autofill" hidden="true"> <label><html:h2 data-l10n-id="autofill-payment-methods-title" class="subsection-heading"/></label> View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/compare/9882c79... -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/compare/9882c79... You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.torproject.org.