1162227 - toolkit.telemetry - about:config Settings do not hide Telemetry Prompt anymore

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, defect)

Description

[Alexander Lackner]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0 Mobile/12F70 Safari/600.1.4

Steps to reproduce:

I have the following about:config-Settings active to hide the Telemetry Prompt for new Users:

lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.enabled", false);
lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.prompted", 2);
lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.rejected", true);

Until Version 33.0 it worked fine, when i created a new Profile or a new User would start Firefox, nothing would be show.


Actual results:

Since Firefox 33.0 the Telemetry Prompt shows up even when the about:config-Settings are correctly set. When i click the button to configure the Telemetry Settings, they are already disabled, so at least toolkit.telemetry.enabled is still working.


Expected results:

There should be no Telemetry Prompt when a new User opens Firefox.

Comment 1

[Justin [:JW_SoftvisionQA]]

Hello Alexander,

I attempted to reproduce this bug on:

Name     Firefox
Version     38.0
Build ID     20150508094354
User Agent     Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

but the last 2 steps [lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.prompted", 2);
lockPref("toolkit.telemetry.rejected", true);] are throwing me an error.

I then attempted to reproduce this on the newest Firefox build:

Name 	Firefox
Version 	43.0.1
Build ID 	20151216175450
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0

and got the same error message as on 38.0.

Please let me know if this bug is still an issue. If it is can you provide me with more detailed steps so that I can reproduce? 

Thank you,

Justin

Comment 2

[Alexander Lackner]

Hi Justin,

you are right, i think those keys are deprecated.

I think this one should do the trick:
datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyBypassNotification = true

The Mozilla Enterprise Guide (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Enterprise_deployment) sets the following Keys, maybe those hide the notification as well:

// Disable health reporter
lockPref("datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled", false);

// Disable all data upload (Telemetry and FHR)
lockPref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionEnabled", false);

I think we can close this Ticket.