1830673 - Learn more link for disabling telemetry opens two tabs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P3)

Description

[Mathew Hodson]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to about:preferences#privacy
2. Enable "Allow Nightly to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" if it isn't already
3. Click the checkbox to then disable it
4. Click the Learn more link in the info box that appears

Actual results:

Two tabs get opened:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

Expected results:

Only one tab should be opened for https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/telemetry-clientid?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

Comment 1

[Mathew Hodson]

Attachment: Screenshot of the link with the issue

This is the link that has the issue

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

:ebilitenelson, since you are the author of the regressor, bug 1820209, could you take a look?

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Comment 3

[Ardelean Oana, Desktop Test Engineering [:oardelean]]

Hello, thank you for the bug report!
Managed to reproduce on:

• Nightly 114.0a1;
• Firefox 113.0;

Tested and reproduced on:

• macOS 12;
• Windows 10;
• Ubuntu 22;

Setting as NEW.

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Set release status flags based on info from the regressing bug 1820209

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Clear a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user.

Inactive users most likely will not respond; if the missing information is essential and cannot be collected another way, the bug maybe should be closed as INCOMPLETE.

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Comment 6

[Mathew Hodson]

Attachment: Bug 1830673 - Use support-page attribute for telemetry article link r=tgiles

This prevents two tabs from being opened.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/65b9c9f9d9f8
Use support-page attribute for telemetry article link r=settings-reviewers,mconley

Comment 8

[Norisz Fay [:noriszfay]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/65b9c9f9d9f8

Comment 9

[Dana Lucaci, Desktop QA]

Reproduced the issue with Firefox 114.0a1 (2023-04-30) on macOS 14.
The issue is verified fixed with Firefox 131.0a1 (20240807215007) and Firefox 130.0b2 (20240807091924) on MacOS 14 ARM, Ubuntu 22 and Windows 10.