Pier Angelo Vendrame pushed to branch tor-browser-128.0esr-14.0-2 at The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser

Commits: f5137417 by Pier Angelo Vendrame at 2024-07-29T18:45:42+02:00 fixup! Firefox preference overrides.

Bug 42872: Disable translations.

Currently, the UX is kinda bad in Tor Browser (RFP might be a reason). Also, we should audit it first, to make sure it is not a fingerprinting concern (or if it is, we should make sure it is an acceptable one).

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1 changed file:

- browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js

Changes:

===================================== browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js ===================================== @@ -259,6 +259,11 @@ pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.providers.messaging-experiment // Disable fetching asrouter.ftl and related console errors (tor-browser#40763). pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.useRemoteL10n", false);

+// tor-browser#42872, #42555: Disable translations. +// Translation have a bad UX in 128 (and with our config). Maybe we will +// re-enable after auditing and fixing the UX. +pref("browser.translations.enable", false); + // tor-browser#41945 - disable automatic cookie banners dismissal until // we're sure it does not causes fingerprinting risks or other issues. pref("cookiebanners.service.mode", 0);

View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/commit/f5137417...