1409192 - Tracking Protection page is only about Private Browsing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Content, task, P1)

Description

[François Marier [:francois]]

Currently Firefox links to this page from the tracking protection setting in about:preferences:

  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-pbm?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

which is fine on release. On Nightly however, there is a pref to enable TP outside of Private Browsing as well. Also, starting in 57, we will be starting to expose that 3-level setting to users.

We also have this old unmaintained page on SUMO:

  https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox

I can see two different approaches to supporting 57:

1. We update the tracking-protection-firefox page link to either tracking-protection-firefox or tracking-protection-pbm from the product depending on which UI is shown.

2. We merge the two SUMO pages and discuss both versions of the TP setting (either the tri-state radio buttons or the checkbox).

Comment 1

[François Marier [:francois]]

Given that we are going ahead with the full tracking protection options (i.e. what used to be the Nightly UI) in 57 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1393627#c5) and that we no longer have time to change the in-product links, we probably need to go with #2 and repurpose the tracking-protection-pbm page.

Comment 2

[Roland Tanglao needinfo please :rolandtanglao, :mohnkuchen, :adobo, :sinigang, :roland]

ran into francois in the vancouver office today, Firefox needs this i.e. comment 1 to be done for 57. Unfortunately, this decision was only made the morning of friday november 3rd, 2017, so i guess the right thing is to assign to you joni and setting to P1 to get it done quickly.

Comment 3

[Joni Chan]

I've updated this article to reflect the three options in Nightly. I've also changed the title and fixed the redirect to expand the messaging to beyond Private Browsing.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection

Comment 4

[François Marier [:francois]]

Thanks Joni for the incredibly quick turn-around!

Comment 5

[François Marier [:francois]]

For reference, here's the change: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection/compare?locale=en-US&to=150388&from=148161

Comment 6

[François Marier [:francois]]

It turns out Fennec also changed its tracking protection preferences in bug 1399014.

Joni, any chance we could get the Fennec SUMO page updated as well?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-firefox-android

Comment 7

[Alice Wyman]

(In reply to Joni Savage ("need info" me) from comment #3)
> I've updated this article to reflect the three options in Nightly. I've also
> changed the title and fixed the redirect to expand the messaging to beyond
> Private Browsing.
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection

Joni, I reverted your changes since your revision comment was " updated for 57" and you didn't post anything about this bug in the article discussion forum. I thought you had mixed up Nightly with Beta. 

Related discussion: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection/discuss/7289 [Fx58] Tracking Protection settings changed in Firefox 58 Nightly

Comment 8

[Alice Wyman]

I made a new revision that includes Joni's last update. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection/history

Comment 9

[Joni Chan]

Sorry, Alice. I forgot to paste the bug info in my haste. 

François, I've updated the Android article as well. Thanks for flagging this.

Comment 10

[François Marier [:francois]]

Thank you Alice and Joni!