[tor-bugs] #32325 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Allow Letterboxing opt-in/out

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#32325: Allow Letterboxing opt-in/out
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 Reporter:  antonela                             |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, tbb-9.0-issues,             |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam202001                           |
Parent ID:  #32324                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by pospeselr):

 Replying to [comment:11 arthuredelstein]:
 > I don't think Mozilla would necessarily be opposed to having a patch for
 the about:preferences page, assuming the checkbox only appears when
 privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled.
 >
 > On the other hand, perhaps I'm missing some context -- is there a strong
 desire from users to disable letterboxing? It's really quite an important
 part of fingerprinting resistance.
 >
 > Also -- the name "letterboxing" is probably not the best. ;)

 Yeah there was a fair bit of backlash and bugs filed when the letterboxing
 changes went live in 9.0. Some vocal users really want all of their screen
 real estate, despite how finger-printable it makes them while others think
 the margin is a bug.

 We have ticket #32324 to improve our user-onboarding to better inform
 users about what/why letterboxing is and should be enabled. We also have
 Mozilla 1594455 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594455 )
 to uplift some of our design changes to make the UX feel a bit more
 polished (a prototype of this is in the latest Tor Browser Alpha if you're
 curious)

 I'm open to alternative less-scary names for letterboxing. :D

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