[tor-bugs] #18169 [Tor Browser]: Tor Browser 5.5 misses whitelisted zh-CN UI font

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#18169: Tor Browser 5.5 misses whitelisted zh-CN UI font
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 Reporter:  gk                                   |          Owner:
     Type:  defect                               |  arthuredelstein
 Priority:  Very High                            |         Status:
Component:  Tor Browser                          |  needs_review
 Severity:  Critical                             |      Milestone:
 Keywords:  tbb-fingerprinting-fonts tbb-        |        Version:
  usability, TorBrowserTeam201601R               |     Resolution:
Parent ID:  #18097                               |  Actual Points:
  Sponsor:                                       |         Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:10 arthuredelstein]:
 > Replying to [comment:8 yawning]:
 > > As a side note, all this messing around with the whitelist still feels
 like a poor solution to something that is ideally addressed by decoupling
 the font fingerprint defenses from the UI rendering.
 >
 > Agreed. I think the most feasible way to do this decoupling will be when
 electrolysis is activated, so that we can (hopefully) apply a whitelist
 only to content. Unfortunately I don't see an easy way to do this before
 then.

 Why not in this case given that almost every feature has a way to query
 whether it is currently executed in a chrome/non-chrome context?

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