Re: [Tails-dev] Issue #9700 (Torbutton preset)

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Author: teor
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Issue #9700 (Torbutton preset)

> On 8 Oct 2017, at 02:39, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
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> 2. Then we have two options:
>
>   a) Directly save low-level Tor Browser settings in .js format in
>      the persistent file, and ensure that 1. this persistent file is
>      loaded when Tor Browser starts (rather easy, as your research
>      shows); 2. any change applied by the user to the security slider
>      settings is persisted in that file (a bit harder, probably this
>      would require adding code to our tor-browser wrapper script).


This could cause issues when the Tor Browser team changes which
features are at which levels. They have a re-evaluation scheduled
based on recent Mozilla security issues.

>   b) Save the desired security slider settings in a higher-level way,
>      in non-JS format, e.g. TOR_BROWSER_SECURITY_SLIDER=$level.
>      Then our tor-browser wrapper script could set
>      extensions.torbutton.security_slider accordingly on Tor Browser
>      startup, and after Tor Browser has exited it could persist the
>      updated settings to that persistent config file.

>
> I'm not sure which is best.


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