ToDo: diffs FF97-FF98 #1390
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some bugzilla tickets
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so firefox is making data collection opt-in by default? others, for curiosity:
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mmmh I thought you might want to give it the Sync / Pocket treatment, but to be fair it is not an actual "feature" so it makes sense to ignore it completely. |
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FYI |
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worksforme - just downloaded a zip and an exe |
Err, what? It says that "IndexedDB serialization support is being removed" and this is noted in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/63
instead they just implicitly cache WebAssembly modules instead |
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yup, I guess the large red banner wasn't enough for me to notice :-} |
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too much pokemon, not enough skyrim .. there's your problem. FWIW I believe any wasm cached stuff here is under Quota Manager |
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It's listed under the telemetry section, and telemetry has always been default opt-in (with new profiles loading a privacy/telemetry related tab to inform users etc, so they can opt out if they want to - plus it's always in the UI - it's not hidden or anything). It has to be opt-in, and has always been opt-in, otherwise their dataset would be tainted, small, not-real-world and about as useful as a peacock in a knife fight (because IDK 95% of users won't change anything) BUT ... the form you're quoting is actually the standard form for adding telemetry items and has nothing to do with overall telemetry - i.e they are adding a telemetry item to measure opt-in/opt-out rates of the new telemetry UI option
The Learn More link is dead, the prefs are default false - so until they land it, we don't need to worry about it - that and I can't find any documentation (there's a jira link but I can't log in), and I'm slightly confused, since related tickets/talk are about changing PB mode to dark mode (how does that fit in with telemetry?). I used my guggle search ninja skillz and couldn't find out anything more about "Privacy Segmentation" - I'm sure we will all know about it sooner rather than later, via a Mozilla blog or that Learn More link Anyway, my best guess, once they roll this out, there may be some sort of notification on update (or else why the telemetry on opt-in rates?) - and if anything, provides more privacy options for end users. And, any data collection would still respect the master telemetry pref IMO. tl;dr: non-event |
edit: testing sanitize on close
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I think this new download behavior actually makes a lot of sense, quite nice. |
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^ my above test was only for the downloads panel, IDK what is in "history". Anyway, IDCare because we sanitize on close and I do not consider session data to be an issue
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/manage-downloads-preferences-using-downloads-menu Everyone's workflow will differ We already ask where to save (for items that don't open in the browser) and I already added this From memory, the notification would show every time when I already know I clicked on something to download - I do get the driveby download aspect, and I think they made it so that if a download was already in progress it didn't manifest again. IDK and IDCAre. We don't need two lots of interactives - we already prompt where to save. IDK why they felt the need to reset handling - nothing changed on my end (maybe because I'm using a portable?) @rusty-snake said his downloads were aborting - maybe he's in Texas defying Abbott? @rusty-snake - have you sorted that out yet - I don't see how a notification should cause a download to cancel, but still, it's plausible?
did you set 2652? |
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Update: This only affects download that require login (e.g. email attachments). Adding ETP exception or using default-container makes no difference. OS: Fedora Linux 35 |
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no 98-99 diffs |
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FF98 is scheduled for release Mar. 8th
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