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Bug 41237: Add some font aliases for compatibility.

Pier Angelo Vendrame requested to merge pierov/tor-browser-build:bug_41237 into main

Merge Info

Related Issues

Backporting

Timeline

  • Immediate: patchset needed as soon as possible
  • Next Minor Stable Release: patchset that needs to be verified in nightly before backport
  • Eventually: patchset that needs to be verified in alpha before backport
  • No Backport (preferred): patchset for the next major stable

(Optional) Justification

  • Emergency security update: patchset fixes CVEs, 0-days, etc
  • Censorship event: patchset enables censorship circumvention
  • Critical bug-fix: patchset fixes a bug in core-functionality
  • Consistency: patchset which would make development easier if it were in both the alpha and release branches; developer tools, build system changes, etc
  • Sponsor required: patchset required for sponsor
  • Other: please explain

Issue Tracking

Review

Request Reviewer

  • Request review from an applications developer depending on modified system:
    • NOTE: if the MR modifies multiple areas, please /cc all the relevant reviewers (since gitlab only allows 1 reviewer)
    • accessibility : henry
    • android : clairehurst, dan
    • build system : boklm
    • extensions : ma1
    • firefox internals (XUL/JS/XPCOM) : jwilde, ma1
    • fonts : pierov
    • frontend (implementation) : henry
    • frontend (review) : donuts, morgan
    • localization : henry, pierov
    • macOS : clairehurst, dan
    • nightly builds : boklm
    • rebases/release-prep : boklm, dan, ma1, morgan, pierov
    • security : jwilde, ma1
    • signing : boklm, morgan
    • updater : pierov
    • windows : jwilde, morgan
    • misc/other : morgan, pierov

Change Description

Initially I thought of adding only Arial, Courier New and Times New Roman, because users that don't have the fontconfig config will display them. So adding them will lower the fingerprinting and improve compatibility.

However, not having fontconfig is fingerprintable anyway, so let's add also the other fonts and call it a day (and improve compatibility even more).

How Tested

Added the same changes to a local build.

Edited by morgan

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