[tor-bugs] #12885 [Tor Browser]: Windows Jump Lists fail for Tor Browser

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#12885: Windows Jump Lists fail for Tor Browser
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 Reporter:  mcs          |          Owner:  mcs
     Type:  defect       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser  |        Version:
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 This ticket is a spinoff of #6062 (which I am going to close).

 Windows 7 and 8 include a jump lists feature which is used by Firefox to
 provide a menu of tasks that may be accessed from the Start Menu or
 Taskbar ("Open new tab", "Open new window", etc.)  These task items fail
 in Tor Browser because we have disabled remoting.  Similarly, clicking the
 main "Tor Browser" pinned item fails for the same reason if Tor Browser is
 already running.

 For now, we should change things so we do not show the jump list items.
 We can do so by setting these two prefs to false:

 browser.taskbar.lists.frequent.enabled
 browser.taskbar.lists.tasks.enabled

 (we also want browser.taskbar.lists.recent.enabled = false but that is
 already done by default).

 Also – although one would think that setting browser.taskbar.lists.enabled
 = false would be sufficient to turn everything off, doing that may leave
 old jump list menu items around.  So it is better to turn off the three
 more specific prefs.  See:

 http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-
 esr24/source/browser/modules/WindowsJumpLists.jsm#219

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