Settings should not be available in private windows with Tor

[tomlowenthal]

It's not possible to open a settings page (brave://settings) in a private window. If you try, or use any menus &c to open settings, you instead open that settings page in a regular non-private window. Because windows with Tor are implemented on top of guest windows, this behavior doesn't apply. It should.

[rebron]

@tomlowenthal Right now in release we're showing a blank settings page in a private window with Tor. Do we want to redirect to a normal window brave:/settings tab?

[tomlowenthal]

Yes, that should redirect to a normal window.

[agulab]

Using Settings in TOR browser, I had configured a Search Engine for an onion site that's really useful. Now I can't access that configuration, even though that Search Engine is still configured and I can use it. I tried to configure it in another computer and couldn't. I added it in regular Settings' Search Engine but it doesn't work in TOR browser, even after a computer restart. Have we lost that functionality? Onion site Search Engine configuration was something REALLY useful and as I said, it seems to be in a middle state now, where I can't configure it but it remains from when I could...

[tomlowenthal]

Tor windows don't currently have their own persistent settings. They're built on top of guest windows, which use a blank profile and are fully ephemeral. There's ongoing work to port Tor windows to the incognito profile model, at which point all your saved search engines will be available in Tor windows.

[NumDeP]

Hi @rebron I think just in case it is missed, it would also be good to have the same applied for Private windows as well. In the latest release, it too shows blank and there's be a number of times where I've gone into search for the version I'm running in About Brave and nothing :(

In addition, I don't want to bother you by going slightly off topic but what ever you do for this fix, would it not be conflicting for when Session-Tabs is finally implemented? Meaning is it worth doing as a separate issue instead of it being organised as one of the tasks for Session-Tabs.

Thanks

[yrliou]

It is fixed by brave/brave-core#3319, now we'll open the settings page in the original regular profile, and global settings in Tor are inherited from it.
Mark as QA/No because the step for testing it is included in the above PR.