morgan pushed to branch tor-browser-140.2.0esr-15.0-1 at The Tor Project / 
Applications / Tor Browser


Commits:
68840371 by Pier Angelo Vendrame at 2025-08-14T16:22:54+00:00
fixup! Firefox preference overrides.

BB 41131: Make sure background tasks are not used for shutdown cleanup.

privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown (disabled by default) might try to
use background tasks, without checking whether they are actually
available (they are not for us, as we disable them at build time).

- - - - -


1 changed file:

- browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js


Changes:

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browser/app/profile/001-base-profile.js
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@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ pref("browser.helperApps.deleteTempFileOnExit", true);
 // Prevent download stuffing / DOS (tor-browser#41764)
 pref("browser.download.enable_spam_prevention", true);
 
+// tor-browser#41131: This is normally gated on
+// privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown, which is false by default. But in case
+// users enable it, make sure background tasks are not used for this, since we
+// disable them as well (but at compile time).
+pref("network.cache.shutdown_purge_in_background_task", false);
+
 // Misc privacy: Disk
 pref("signon.rememberSignons", false);
 pref("browser.formfill.enable", false);



View it on GitLab: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/commit/6884037178a1bf6634406b656534333530deb5a9

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