Verified Commit 0b81f7d8 authored by jwilde's avatar jwilde Committed by Pier Angelo Vendrame
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MB 305: Disable setting default browser on Windows 

Until we can pull in upstream changes to fix breakage in setting
the Mullvad Browser as default in Windows 10/11 we're disabling
the ability to do so via about:preferences as well as via the
startup query dialog
parent 1318e9d7

browser/components/preferences/main.js

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@@ -1765,7 +1765,10 @@ var gMainPane = { 
        "@mozilla.org/xre/directory-provider;1"

      ].getService(Ci.nsIXREDirProvider);

      // Flatpak does not support setting nor detection of default browser

      if (!shellSvc || isInFlatpak || xreDirProvider.isPortableMode) {

      // Mullvad Bug 298: the ability to set Mullvad as the default browser in

      // Windows is currently not functioning so hide the DOM Element containing

      // default browser settings on non-portable Windows installs as well

      if (!shellSvc || isInFlatpak || xreDirProvider.isPortableMode || AppConstants.platform == "win") {

        defaultBrowserBox.hidden = true;

        return;

      }

browser/components/shell/ShellService.sys.mjs

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@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ let ShellServiceInternal = { 
   */

  _checkedThisSession: false,

  get shouldCheckDefaultBrowser() {

    // Mullvad Bug 298: the ability to set Mullvad as the default browser in

    // Windows is currently not functioning so in lieu of overwriting user prefs

    // or shipping a new default return early here

    if(AppConstants.platform == "win") {

      return false;

    }



    // If we've already checked, the browser has been started and this is a

    // new window open, and we don't want to check again.

    if (this._checkedThisSession) {