Setting browser.region.update.enabled to false has no effect
Categories
(Firefox :: Search, defect, P5)
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(Reporter: u711699, Unassigned)
Details
Steps to reproduce:
- create new profile
- start browser with new profile while offline
- set browser.region.update.enabled to false
- restart browser while online
Actual results:
- browser.region.update.updated is created and set
- browser.search.region is created and set
Expected results:
- browser.region.update.updated is not created and set
- browser.search.region is not created and set
I'm aware that setting browser.region.network.url to an empty string does the job, but browser.region.update.enabled shouldn't be ignored.
AFAICT it has no function whatsoever.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Networking' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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Moving to Firefox:Search based on the blame for browser.region.network.url. Apologies if this is incorrect.
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Comment 3•2 years ago
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Issue reproduces on Win10 using build 103.0 (20220718155818).
Marking issue as new for developers to confirm the behavior. Thank you.
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Comment 4•2 years ago
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Please can you clarify why you want to disable this behaviour? We get the region to allow us to set up various items in the browser according to your location.
If we do this, we will need to check that the existing services that use the region value will work correctly.
(In reply to Mark Banner (:standard8) from comment #4)
Please can you clarify why you want to disable this behaviour? We get the region to allow us to set up various items in the browser according to your location.
If we do this, we will need to check that the existing services that use the region value will work correctly.
I don't think that my motivation for disabling the region update is relevant here, but okay, I'll explain it.
A clean installation of Firefox comes with a lot of sponsored content which I find very annoying. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about it. (If there was a paid version of Firefox without the sponsored content, I would definitely buy it.) The region update adds even more sponsored content. I don't like to get annoyed, so I disable the region update.
Mark, I noticed that you gave this bug Priority 5. (In Mozilla's own words: "We basically never want this.")
Could you please clarify your motivation for this categorization?
Do you think it's not a bug? If yes, what makes you think that?
Or do you think it's better to keep this broken?
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Comment 7•2 years ago
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Yes, this is not a priority for us at the moment. This is the first time in two years of the code being active that this has been suggested, and so it really doesn't feel a priority especially considering all the other things that are broken/being worked upon. Additionally there is an alternative work around as you mention in comment 0.
With respect to sponsored results, we always provide ways you can turn those off from the UI. For example on the new tab page you can click the cog button and uncheck the "Sponsored Shortcuts" item.
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