Pier Angelo Vendrame pushed to branch mullvad-browser-128.0esr-14.0-1 at The Tor Project / Applications / Mullvad Browser

Commits:

• f5246bd3
  by Pier Angelo Vendrame at 2024-07-30T09:34:47+02:00

  fixup! Firefox preference overrides.
  
  Bug 42872: Disable translations.
  
  Currently, the UX is kinda bad in Tor Browser (RFP might be a reason).
  Also, we should audit it first, to make sure it is not a
  fingerprinting concern (or if it is, we should make sure it is an
  acceptable one).
  

1 changed file:

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

Changes:

 // Disable fetching asrouter.ftl and related console errors (tor-browser#40763).

 pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.asrouter.useRemoteL10n", 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.

+pref("browser.translations.enable", false);

+

 // tor-browser#41945 - disable automatic cookie banners dismissal until

 // we're sure it does not causes fingerprinting risks or other issues.

 pref("cookiebanners.service.mode", 0);