Make sure speech recognition is disabled by default (WebSpeech API)

We should make sure speech recognition is disabled by default (media.webspeech.recognition.enables). Not sure about speech synthesis (media.webspeech.synth.enabled) yet. Both preferences are off by default on ESR45.

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Adding tickets to our 7.0 ticket list

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Getting more tickets on our alpha radar.

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Moving the investigation tickets to higher priority.

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See #10283 (moved) for the synthesis part. Moving this to ff59-esr as this is still off in Firefox ESR52.

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Firefox 60 is the new ESR.

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In Firefox 60ESR,

• media.webspeech.synth.enabled is true
• media.webspeech.recognition.enable is false.

We'll need to investigate whether the synth should be false as well.

In https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/browser/app/profile/000-tor-browser.js?h=tor-browser-60.1.0esr-8.0-1, we set media.webspeech.synth.enabled to false (from #10283 (moved)). So I think we should leave this as is, and how to enable speech synthesis without allowing fingerprinting will require more detailed study.

(I also confirmed that the window.speechSynthesis API is not available to content in our TBB 8.0 alpha)

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(Setting to review to confirm this is a reasonable decision for now.)

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Replying to arthuredelstein:

In https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser.git/tree/browser/app/profile/000-tor-browser.js?h=tor-browser-60.1.0esr-8.0-1, we set media.webspeech.synth.enabled to false (from #10283 (moved)). So I think we should leave this as is, and how to enable speech synthesis without allowing fingerprinting will require more detailed study.

Which can be done in #22075 (moved), I guess. (Or a different, yet to be filed bug)

(I also confirmed that the window.speechSynthesis API is not available to content in our TBB 8.0 alpha)

Great.

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Move our tickets to August.

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Moving our tickets to September 2018

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Adding Sponsor 44 to ESR68 tickets

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We are still good for ESR 68.

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There is no 76 ESR.

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moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#18598 (closed)