[tor-commits] [sandboxed-tor-browser/master] Bug 13170: Disable the rest of the Firefox experiments botnet prefs.

yawning at torproject.org yawning at torproject.org
Thu Aug 3 17:27:18 UTC 2017


commit 3cb78c8c65ea220c01a9abbd484c8a0284beb5fd
Author: Yawning Angel <yawning at schwanenlied.me>
Date:   Thu Aug 3 17:26:05 2017 +0000

    Bug 13170: Disable the rest of the Firefox experiments botnet prefs.
    
    The Tor Browser developers have not took action on this, so I will.
---
 ChangeLog                  | 1 +
 data/installer/mozilla.cfg | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 274f4e2..89e69a5 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Changes in version 0.0.13 - UNRELEASED:
+ * Bug 13170: Disable the rest of the Firefox experiments botnet prefs.
 
 Changes in version 0.0.12 - 2017-08-01:
  * Bug 22969: Disable the addon blocklist.
diff --git a/data/installer/mozilla.cfg b/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
index 1b8f97d..71ea6f5 100644
--- a/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
+++ b/data/installer/mozilla.cfg
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@ lockPref("extensions.getAddons.showPane", false);
 // install date among other things to Mozilla.
 lockPref("extensions.blocklist.enabled", false);
 
+// Disable experiments, because opt-out is anti-privacy.
+lockPref("experiments.enabled", false);
+lockPref("network.allow-experiments", false);
+lockPref("experiments.manifest.uri", "");
+
 // Force IDNs to be displayed as punycode to thwart homograph attacks.
 defaultPref("network.IDN_show_punycode", true);
 



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