Customize the about dialog in Privacy Browser

For Tor Browser we do that in the Torbutton commit, I think.

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Do we have copy, assets, or design for what we want to do with this? Or is it just taking the tor one, generalizing it to some variables and applying here?

Sorry, I forgot to add UX labels.

I think we need some UX directives here .

About dialog assets are in the branding directory (I have a commit to produce that directory, so I should share that commit first).

However, you cannot customize much, apart from the logo and the colors.

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Bad news: the about dialog files are used also for the default homepage.

I don't see the homepage customization anywhere for this January release (@henry IIRC you were doing something about it?).

So I think we'll keep the Firefox's one, which isn't very ideal.

BTW, I've added apps team to my sekrit fork, so you should be able to see it now and browse my current branding branch: https://gitlab.torproject.org/pierov/mullvad-browser.

I don't see the homepage customization anywhere for this January release (@henry IIRC you were doing something about it?).

Do you mean the about:tor page? That's being updated in tor-browser#41333 (closed)

the about dialog files are used also for the default homepage.

What files?

Do you mean the about:tor page? That's being updated in tor-browser#41333 (closed)

Yes

What files?

The ones you see in this screenshot:

They are browser/branding/$theme/content/{about-logo.png,firefox-wordmark.svg}, and I think that probably about-logo@2x.png is used, too.

oh right. That seems to be the activity-stream page (redirected from about:home and about:newtab). I don't think we'll be using that for either browser.

Aren't we going to replace the firefox assets into browser/branding anyway? So why is it an issue if they are also used in the "About" dialog?

Yeah, I've called homepage because the preference to change it is browser.startup.homepage, and it's called Homepage in the settings.

But I'm sure it has its specific name .

Aren't we going to replace the firefox assets into browser/branding anyway? So why is it an issue if they are also used in the "About" dialog?

Yes, we're replacing the assets, but only the actually needed ones.

We don't replace these ones in Tor Browser, so I thought we could avoid replacing them also in Mullvad Browser. Thus, I haven't asked the designers to create these assets.

An issue here is the font: we'll need either to ask the sponsor if they have some preference, or just to create some assets now, to release something asap, and then replace when we get the actual preference.

I don't know if we'll have metrics problems (i.e., use a smaller font to fit the width?), but I don't believe so.

Another issue are the texts in the screenshot below.

But I guess that we can keep the ones that are already there for January, as long as we customize the branding, and provide a customized about dialog in the next version.

I've already replaced the logo, but I don't have a replacement for the wording, yet.

here is the wordmark svg!

• mullvad-browser-wordmark.svg

All these links are to Moz

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@ruihildt this is the current UI for reference:

@ruihildt Please ignore the fact the logo asset is out of date here, it's since been replaced with the newer gradient version instead.

However following your feedback here: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/privacy-browser/-/issues/3#note_2875888

Should this dialog be using the tiled version of the logo (with the gradient background), or the "M" with no background?

@donuts Let's try here the M with no background.

@ruihildt ack, I've updated the files in !5 (merged).

However, could you also please give us more information about what you wish to be displayed in this dialog?

I guess that you'll want basically everything changed (especially the links pointing to Mozilla).

For now, let's keep it simple. Under the browser version (which can be a copy of what you have in Tor Browser), add the following:

Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between [Mullvad VPN](https://mullvad.net) and the [Tor Project](https://www.torproject.org). It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.

[Read more](https://mullvad.net/browser)
Help & feedback: [support@mullvad.net](mailto:support@mullvad.net)

In the link sections of the footer:

[Licensing Information](about:license) [End-User Rights](about:rights) [Privacy Policy](https://mullvad.net/en/help/privacy-policy/) [Telemetry](about:telemetry)

Some preferences for the colors?

Help & feedback: [support@mullvad.net](mailto:support@mullvad.net)

mailto links will be blocked in Mullvad Browser.

Do you have a replacement for that link?

Some preferences for the colors?

Do you mean the background color(s)?

Do you mean the background color(s)?

Yes, but it's HTML (actually XUL) + CSS, so we can customize whatever we need.

Gotcha! We've customized it in the past for Tor Browser I believe, and it eventually broke after a Firefox update. So if @ruihildt's happy with the default background(s) I'd leave it as-is :)

We should catch modifications, they should conflict when rebasing .

But as you prefer.

@pierov If mailto are blocked, the email in plaintext will do. We will think of a better solution later on.

@donuts Default background is fine for now, though I have a suspicion we might prefer to use the blue (or a similar gradient as the logo background), as it's more on brand.

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@ruihildt @donuts here is the new about dialog, almost ready.

I have to find out where is the JS that enables that "What's new link", but the rest should be ready.

What's new is a redirect to the online changelog, so I think you can just remove it for now, as I have no idea where that will be placed in the future.

Moreover, I thought we agreed on following the Tor Browser release numbering. If it's not present in test release, it's ok as long as it's in the first release.

Moreover, I thought we agreed on following the Tor Browser release numbering. If it's not present in test release, it's ok as long as it's in the first release.

We have a patch at Tor Browser level that defines a --with-tor-browser-version compile flag.

We still haven't implemented one, but it's something we can add, and later apply the same overrides we have here and there.

Let me open a new issue about that, if we don't have one already.

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Merged in !5 (merged).

Further customization, if needed, should happen in separate issues.

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