Re: [tbb-dev] "Open with" vs. confinement of Tor Browser

anonym:

intrigeri:

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I see two main options:

1. Add an option to Tor Browser to never propose opening a downloaded file with an external application.

This would of course be ideal. [...]

I had a look, and it turned out to be almost trivial to add a pref for this once I found the responsible code in this gigantic codebase. See the attached patch for a PoC! I suppose a ticket should be opened, but I guess we could first discuss here what we actually want to do since, well, the discussion started here. Or?

However, this patch would (AFAICT) do exactly what we want in Tails, so we'd be thrilled if you could apply it in time for the next Tor Browser release, even if we come up with some grander solution that will take longer time to implement. Then it can just be dropped.

Cheers!