1958856 - Firefox Labs requires app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled=true and datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled=true

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1959804

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Woyece]

Attachment: Recorded video265.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/131.1

Steps to reproduce:

browser.preferences.experimental is true
browser.preferences.experimental.hidden is false

Actual results:

I'm visiting about:preferences#experimental or about:preferences. Right after visiting, browser.preferences.experimental.hidden would be true.

Expected results:

browser.preferences.experimental.hidden is overriding (changes to true) and Firefox Labs disappears quickly after visiting the preferences page.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Settings UI' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Jared Hirsch [:jhirsch] (he/him) (Needinfo please)]

Hi there - while those two prefs are important, they don't completely determine whether the Firefox Labs section is visible.

In the about:preferences#privacy screen, in the Data Collection section, do you have the "Install and run studies" checkbox checked? (If you'd rather look in about:config, the corresponding pref is app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled.) The Firefox Labs section is only visible if this preference is enabled.

Closing as invalid. However, if the app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled pref is true, and you still can't see the Firefox Labs section, please reopen and we'll investigate further. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Woyece]

(In reply to Jared Hirsch [:jhirsch] (he/him) (Needinfo please) from comment #2)

app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled is true (Also checked with false) and I can't see the Firefox Labs section.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

What is the value of datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled and does about:policies show any enterprise policies that are active?

Comment 5

[Woyece]

(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #4)

What is the value of datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled and does about:policies show any enterprise policies that are active?

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnable is false

The Enterprise Policies service is inactive.

Comment 6

[Woyece]

I set the datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnable to false and Firefox Labs appeared.

Comment 7

[Beth Rennie [:beth] (she/her) - OOO until Sept 14]

(In reply to Woyece from comment #6)

I set the datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnable to false and Firefox Labs appeared.

I believe you mean setting it to true made it appear, which is expected behaviour.

Comment 8

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I set the datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnable to true and Firefox Labs appeared.

Just to be very clear, this corresponds to the "Send technical and interaction data to Mozilla" checkbox in the settings. And yes, as Beth said, we do not show labs without that enabled.

Comment 9

[Woyece]

Yes, you and Beth are right. Thanks for all your help.