Remove or hide "What's New" link from About dialog

In Firefox 46, Mozilla added a "What's New" link to the About dialog. Unfortunately the URL is hard-coded to point to mozilla.org, so we need to remove or hide it.

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legacy/trac#21613 (moved) is a duplicate. An idea I had there was to just point to our blog post for that release instead.

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@gk This is fixed. I don't see any "what's new" on help>about dialogs in TB since at least 8.0 (ESR.68.0.2)

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FWIW, this got fixed in 8.0a9 and we even have an entry for that in our commit for #4234 (closed) (albeit the bug number is missing, which we should fix in one of the next rebases). I'll correct the Changelog.

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@richard @duncan we have a regression in Tor Browser 11.0.9.

The new preference is called app.releaseNotesURL.aboutDialog.

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Ok, so we need to set app.releaseNotesUrl.aboutDialog to about:blank (which disable the link, the about dialog cannot load about:tbubdate becuase it's an 'about' uri). I'm also investigating fixing the help and submit feedback links which currently point to mozilla stuffs.

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