1807453 - GUI settings for a number of privacy-related options

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Privacy, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/14807.

What is the user problem or growth opportunity you want to see solved?

Some settings provide privacy-conscious Firefox users with finer control over their browsing experience:

• media.peerconnection.enabled - enable/disable WebRTC

• privacy.resistFingerprinting - self-explanatory

• privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled - self-explanatory

• privacy.firstparty.isolate - enable/disable isolating cookies to first-party domain, which prevents tracking across multiple domains

• geo.enabled - enable/disable geolocation tracking

• media.navigator.enabled - enable/disable ability to track microphone and camera status

• network.cookie.lifetimePolicy - determines when cookies are deleted

• network.dns.disablePrefetch - disable/enable prefetching DNS requests

• network.prefetch-next - another setting to enable/disable prefetching DNS requests

• webgl.disabled - self-explanatory

• dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled - prevents websites from getting notifications if you copy, paste, or cut something from the page

• media.eme.enabled - enable/disable playback of DRM-controlled HTML5 content

• browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled - self-explanatory covered by #14163

• browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled - self-explanatory covered by #14163

Settings like privacy.trackingprotection.fingerprinting.enabled, privacy.trackingprotection.cryptomining.enabled, privacy.trackingprotection.enabled and network.cookie.cookieBehavior while already present in the GUI, are insufficient. It makes perfect sense to add all the missing settings mentioned to the GUI.

How do you know that this problem exists today? Why is this important?

There are currently two problems:

1. about:config is unavailable in Fenix release, making these settings impossible to adjust

2. these settings should be adjustable via GUI in the first place, there is no good reason hiding them from Firefox users

Who will benefit from it?

Every privacy-conscious Firefox Fenix user will benefit from this change.

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