[tor-bugs] #18802 [Tor Browser]: remove Shumway (JS-based Flash VM)

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#18802: remove Shumway (JS-based Flash VM)
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 Reporter:  mcs                                  |          Owner:  mcs
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Browser                          |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ff45-esr, tbb-6.0a5,                 |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201604                           |         Points:
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Changes (by mcs):

 * cc: arthuredelstein (added)


Comment:

 It looks like Shumway will be included in our nightly builds, which is not
 good (search for shumway inside browser/installer/package-manifest.in).

 Kathy and I think the best solution is to backport the three patches that
 are mentioned here:
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250046#c8

 Arthur, is this something you can do?

 It looks like the patches apply fairly cleanly with the exception of the
 third patch. The problem there is that toolkit/components/telemetry
 /histogram-whitelists.json does not exist in the ESR45 tree; I think that
 part of the patch can just be skipped.

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