More on Firefox Health Report

[WaltS]

So FHR has shown up in Firefox 21.0a1 aka Nightly and appears to be
enabled by default.

It is easily disabled by selecting Help > Nightly Health Report, and
activating the Turn Off Reporting button, or in Tools > Options >
Advanced > Data Choices tab.

This is the data it collects if enabled.

<https://services.mozilla.com/healthreport/glossary.html>

If enabled, you can activate the Show Details button, to see what data
will be collected from your browser.

The Data Choices tab is also in Firefox 20.a2 aka Aurora, but FHR is not
included at this time.


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[WaltS]

On 01/26/2013 04:51 PM, Sailfish wrote:
> My bloviated meandering follows what WaltS graced us with on 1/26/2013
> 11:49 AM:

> If it phones home, it should be an opt-in option. With all this
> information, it wouldn't be too difficult to identify an individual,
> even without a logon ID.
>

I think it will be opt-in once it is finished.

I don't see any individual identity information in that glossary.

In case anyone is interested.

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=829887>

A few interesting bugs in that Meta bug report.

Here is one that caught my eye.

<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830142#c3>

Still a work in progress.

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[WaltS]

On 01/26/2013 07:16 PM, Sailfish wrote:
> My bloviated meandering follows what WaltS graced us with on 1/26/2013

> 2:29 PM:

> It is a well know fact that most advertisers can figure out who someone
> is to a high degree of accuracy just from the variation of there
> existing browser configuration (plugins, UA string, &c.) The data items
> listed in the health report go well beyond that and contain profile
> currency, processor type (# cores), memory size, &c.
>
> I don't mind including this information when I file a crash report but
> I'd want to limit it only to those rare occassions.
>

I guess we shall have to wait on that new privacy policy mentioned in
that posted bug comment.

I have FHR enabled in my Nightly, but so far I get "We're still
gathering data on your browser's health. Stay tuned!" when I activate
"Show Nightly Report".

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[GerardJan]

I don´t know what versions of *firefox* and what version of *seamakey*,
mine are:

Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/19.0 Firefox/19.0 SeaMonkey/2.16a1

sincerely,

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