[tor-bugs] #30665 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Get Firefox 68 ESR Working with latest android toolchain

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#30665: Get Firefox 68 ESR Working with latest android toolchain
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 Reporter:  sisbell                              |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, ff68-esr, tbb-9.0-must-     |  Actual Points:
  nightly, TorBrowserTeam201908                  |
Parent ID:  #30324                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor44-can
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Comment (by sisbell):

 I have branch esr68_0827. This is based off of 9.0-3 branch.

 Branch esr68_0827-patched is based off of
 https://git.torproject.org/user/sysrqb/tor-browser.git :
 2dbb7aefeaeb0499ac69c67df470e2ed6df8cb71.

 Overall it looks very good. The patched branch builds and I tested the
 armv7 apk on Android Q. Tor starts and I'm able to access an external
 site.

 Note the following:
 * I provided the android-jsocks.patch which removes the jsocks.aar
 dependency. This is only used for VPN support, which we don't need. I
 broke out the tor-android-service VPN code into its own module, which we
 now exclude from browser builds. This patch can be removed once a similar
 change is made in firefox code.
 * --disable-tor-browser-update does not work in this build so I removed it
 from mozconfig until support is added.
 * network is enabled for the container but I added --offline flag to
 gradle so its can only use our maven cache. I confirmed that nothing
 gradle-related is downloading in the current build.

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