Change default preferences for Tor Browser in DispVM using policies.json

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  • A) The policies file placement is one thing. Versus:
  • B) The actual content of the policies file is a different topic.

Quote Tor browser: set security slider to safest, javascript.enabled to false by default in a TemplateVM - #2 by Patrick

Tor Browser doesn’t have an API / documented setting for that. That feature request was rejected by its upstream (original) developers.

This is unspecific to Whonix:

This is best investigated as per:

The name, functionality of of the settings, is completely up to upstream. Upstream’s here are The Tor Project that developers Tor Browser and by extension Mozilla that developed Firefox, which Tor Browser is based on.

Therefore the advanced topic of the settings in a Tor Browser / Firefox policies file, it’s best to redirect it to upstream(s).