Disable What's New? feature

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Parent Ticket: #33534 (moved)

added component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team parent::33534 priority::medium resolution::not a bug severity::normal sponsor::58 status::closed type::defect ux-team labels

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Parent: N/A to #33534 (moved)

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Cc: N/A to antonela
Keywords: N/A deleted, ux-team added

As I commented in #31660, I don't think we should remove it. Instead, we could link to a webpage.

FYI: in FF78+ (so next ESR then), the pref [1] no longer disables the menu item, just the notification icon on the navbar [2]

[1] browser.messaging-system.whatsNewPanel.enabled [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1599138

It seems that acat's #31575 (moved) patch disables all of this functionality. Specifically, with that patch in place ToolbarPanelHub.init() is not called, which means that the "What's New?" toolbar item and the app menu item are not visible.

acat, can you take a quick look and confirm that your #31575 (moved) patch disables the "What's New?" feature? If so, we can close this ticket and re-enable What's New if we decide to use it for onboarding.

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Status: assigned to needs_information

Yes, by not initializing ActivityStream in AboutNewTab.jsm this should be disabled. The UI part seems to be implemented in ToolbarPanelHub.jsm and ToolbarBadgeHub.jsm, and that's only initialized in ASRouter.jsm, which will never run with our patch.

Not directly related, I noticed that ToolbarPanelHub has one usage outside newtab: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-beta/rev/a559a3f66b0f33306ba2ef4154660f475ae70957/browser/base/content/browser-siteProtections.js#1556, which adds a message to the Protections Panel but that seems unrelated to the Whats New panel, and should not affects us for now, as I think we are not planning to show the protections panel.

Trac:
Status: needs_information to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug

closed

mentioned in issue #33534 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#33853 (closed)