richard pushed to branch mullvad-browser-115.12.0esr-13.5-1 at The Tor Project / Applications / Mullvad Browser

Commits: dace2d0a by june wilde at 2024-06-10T12:49:40-07:00 Bug 305: Disable setting default browser on Windows Until we can pull in upstream changes to fix breakage in setting the Mullvad Browser as default in Windows 10/11 we're disabling the ability to do so via about:preferences as well as via the startup query dialog

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2 changed files:

- browser/components/preferences/main.js - browser/components/shell/ShellService.sys.mjs

Changes:

===================================== browser/components/preferences/main.js ===================================== @@ -1765,7 +1765,10 @@ var gMainPane = { "@mozilla.org/xre/directory-provider;1" ].getService(Ci.nsIXREDirProvider); // Flatpak does not support setting nor detection of default browser - if (!shellSvc || isInFlatpak || xreDirProvider.isPortableMode) { + // Mullvad Bug 298: the ability to set Mullvad as the default browser in + // Windows is currently not functioning so hide the DOM Element containing + // default browser settings on non-portable Windows installs as well + if (!shellSvc || isInFlatpak || xreDirProvider.isPortableMode || AppConstants.platform == "win") { defaultBrowserBox.hidden = true; return; }

===================================== browser/components/shell/ShellService.sys.mjs ===================================== @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ let ShellServiceInternal = { */ _checkedThisSession: false, get shouldCheckDefaultBrowser() { + // Mullvad Bug 298: the ability to set Mullvad as the default browser in + // Windows is currently not functioning so in lieu of overwriting user prefs + // or shipping a new default return early here + if(AppConstants.platform == "win") { + return false; + } + // If we've already checked, the browser has been started and this is a // new window open, and we don't want to check again. if (this._checkedThisSession) {

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