Rebase Tor Browser patches to ESR 45
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Once Firefox 45 ESR reaches beta state we should start rebasing our existing patches. This ticket is tracking that progress + the upcoming issues.
For reference:
- Firefox 45 Alpha: 2015-12-14
- Firefox 45 Beta: 2016-01-26
- Firefox 45 Release (and ESR): 2016-03-08
- Firefox 38 ESR end-of-life: 2016-05-31
See also Mozilla's Merge/Release schedule, Release overview, and Rapid Release Calendar.
Here are TBB5.5a patches upstreamed to Firefox. These will be present in ESR45 and so we won't need to rebase them from TBB 5.5a to TBB 6.0a:
- Bug #12430 (moved): Disable external jar: via preference (https://bugzil.la/1173171)
- TB2: Provide an observer event to close persistent connections (https://bugzil.la/962358)
- Bug #3455 (moved).2. Allow RFC1929 authentication (username/password) to SOCKS servers (https://bugzil.la/1200802)
- Bug #2950 (closed): Make Permissions Manager memory-only (https://bugzil.la/967812)
- Bug #2949 (moved): Make Intermediate Cert Store memory-only. (https://bugzil.la/629558)
- Bug #4755 (closed): Return client window coordinates for mouse event screenX/Y (for dragend, 0,0 is returned). (https://bugzil.la/418986)
- Bug #2875 (closed): Limit device and system specific CSS Media Queries. (https://bugzil.la/418986)
- Bug #5856 (closed): Do not expose physical screen info via window & window.screen. (https://bugzil.la/418986)
- Bug #13016 (moved): Hide CSS -moz-osx-font-smoothing values. (https://bugzil.la/418986)
- Bug #13025 (moved): Lie about screen orientation. (https://bugzil.la/418986)
- Bug #6786 (closed): Do not expose system colors to CSS or canvas. (https://bugzil.la/232227)
- Bug #13313 (moved) Part 2: Fix windows cross-compile for --enable-bundled-fonts (https://bugzil.la/1190590)
- Bug #16906 (moved): Don't depend on Windows crypto DLLs. (https://bugzil.la/1217985)