Closed Bug 1527917 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

Enable cryptomining and fingerprinting blocking options in about:preferences

Categories

(Firefox :: Protections UI, enhancement, P1)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Protections UI
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Firefox 67
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
relnote-firefox --- 67+
firefox67 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: johannh, Assigned: johannh, NeedInfo)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

(Whiteboard: [anti-tracking])

Attachments

(1 file)

Bug 1527917 - Enable cryptomining and fingerprinting blocking options in about:preferences. r=nhnt11
47 bytes, text/x-phabricator-request
Details | Review

We think this can ride the trains in Custom for now.

Pushed by jhofmann@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8dc13c6ba848
Enable cryptomining and fingerprinting blocking options in about:preferences. r=nhnt11

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8dc13c6ba848

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
status-firefox67: --- → fixed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 67

Johann, could we have a release note added for Nightly? Thanks

Flags: needinfo?(jhofmann)

Thanks for the reminder! Forwarding to Arthur and Betsy...

Flags: needinfo?(jhofmann)
Flags: needinfo?(bmikel)
Flags: needinfo?(arthur)

This bug was about "Enabling cryptomining and fingerprinting blocking options in about:preferences" and I have seen the feature being implemented with latest Nightly!

Build ID : 20190223041557
User Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

QA Whiteboard: [bugday-20190220]

(In reply to Johann Hofmann [:johannh] from comment #6)

Thanks for the reminder! Forwarding to Arthur and Betsy...

I went with "Users can block known cryptominers and fingerprinters in the Custom settings or their Content Blocking preferences" for now.

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