1991259 - export for mobile - need option to completely disable this feature

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:143.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/143.0

Expected results:

Follow-up on bug 1928317 (which is closed and I can't comment on).

This feature needs a way to be completely disabled, like for example the DisableFirefoxAccounts policy in Firefox to disable Firefox Sync.

For corporate environments, passwords are not the only sensitive data that we can't trust users with. Also, still in corporate environments, opponents to free software can easily use this as an argument that "Thunderbird is not secure" to convince dumb decision makers not to spread Linux desktops. We really need this.

Comment 1

[Toby Pilling [:tobyp]]

Attachment: Bug 1991259 - Add enterprise policy to disable QR export. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

These tests can be run to verify:

• ../mach mochitest comm/mail/components/preferences/test/browser/browser_qrExportDisabled.js [NEW]
• ../mach mochitest comm/mail/components/preferences/test/browser/browser_qrExport.js
• ../mach xpcshell-test comm/mail/components/enterprisepolicies/tests/xpcshell/test_simple_pref_policies.js [UPDATED]
  Manual testing with app menu and menu bar and Settings tab:
• Verify that with mail.qrexport.enabled=true, the "Export for Mobile" Settings category and both menu items are present and functional.
• Verified that with mail.qrexport.enabled=false, the "Export for Mobile" Settings category and both menu items are hidden.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/18e248c7a05b
Add enterprise policy to disable QR export. r=thunderbird-reviewers,babolivier,aleca