morgan pushed to branch base-browser-128.3.0esr-14.0-1 at The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser

Commits: b8610ea4 by Pier Angelo Vendrame at 2024-10-02T19:52:38+00:00 fixup! Firefox preference overrides.

Bug 42054: ESR128: investigate - thorin's list.

Set or remove some preferences as suggested by Thorin.

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1 changed file:

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

Changes:

===================================== browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js ===================================== @@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ pref("browser.pagethumbnails.capturing_disabled", true); // pref("privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow", false); // pref("privacy.exposeContentTitleInWindow.pbm", false);

+// tor-browser#42054: Opt-out from any built-in backup system, even though +// local, as it might be a violation of our standalone mode. +// Users can still opt-in if they wish. +pref("browser.backup.enabled", false); +pref("browser.backup.scheduled.enabled", false); + // Empty clipboard content from private windows on exit (tor-browser#42154) pref("browser.privatebrowsing.preserveClipboard", false);

@@ -251,6 +257,9 @@ pref("privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled", false); pref("privacy.trackingprotection.socialtracking.enabled", false); pref("privacy.socialtracking.block_cookies.enabled", false); pref("privacy.annotate_channels.strict_list.enabled", false); +// tor-browser#43178: for defense-in-depth, avoid remote overrides to FPP. +// Notice that it should not apply to RFP anyway... +pref("privacy.fingerprintingProtection.remoteOverrides.enabled", false);

// Disable the Pocket extension (Bug #18886 and #31602) pref("extensions.pocket.enabled", false); @@ -284,6 +293,9 @@ 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#42054: make sure search result telemetry is disabled. +pref("browser.search.serpEventTelemetryCategorization.enabled", 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. @@ -444,9 +456,6 @@ pref("pdfjs.disabled", false, locked); #endif // Bug 40057: Ensure system colors are not used for CSS4 colors pref("browser.display.use_system_colors", false); -// Enforce non-native widget theme (true by default, defense in depth). -// Provides a uniform look and feel across platforms. Added with tor-browser#41496. -pref("widget.non-native-theme.enabled", true); // 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); @@ -524,7 +533,9 @@ 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) +// (defense in depth measure). +// As of Firefox 118 (Bug 1843763), upstream does not add any protocol by +// default, but setting it to blank seems a good idea (tor-browser#42054). pref("network.gio.supported-protocols", ""); pref("media.peerconnection.enabled", false); // Disable WebRTC interfaces // Mullvad Browser enables WebRTC by default, meaning that there the following prefs @@ -631,9 +642,6 @@ pref("security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level", 2); // Don't load OS client certs. pref("security.osclientcerts.autoload", false);

-// Don't allow MitM via Microsoft Family Safety, see bug 21686 -pref("security.family_safety.mode", 0); - // Don't allow MitM via enterprise roots, see bug 30681 pref("security.enterprise_roots.enabled", false);

View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/commit/b8610ea4...