Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
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Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
I keep getting pop-up requests from FF 57b to rate the program (Windows 10x64), despite having done so more than once. How can I stop this very annnoying behaviour?
Surely Mozilla isn'tstupid enough to use cookies to record it being done?
Surely Mozilla isn'tstupid enough to use cookies to record it being done?
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Henry
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
firefox to rate windows? wtf? or usage under windows 10? maybe adware?
provide some information please (text, not raw)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/us ... ix-firefox
test firefox in safe-mode please:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode
or
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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provide some information please (text, not raw)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/us ... ix-firefox
test firefox in safe-mode please:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tr ... -safe-mode
or
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
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Insert [Report] here, then [Cleanup]
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
Moving to Firefox Builds as 57b is not a release version.
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
Do you currently have this enabled? - Preferences > Privacy & Security: "Allow Firefox to install and run studies"henryg_1 wrote:I keep getting pop-up requests from FF 57b to rate the program (Windows 10x64), despite having done so more than once. How can I stop this very annnoying behaviour?
If so, disable it. This may solve it. The beta, however, may not allow you to opt-out as it is pre-release.
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
Unfortunately, this is not available as an option. Any about:config change I could make to same effect?"Do you currently have this enabled? - Preferences > Privacy & Security: "Allow Firefox to install and run studies"
If so, disable it. This may solve it. The beta, however, may not allow you to opt-out as it is pre-release.
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Henry
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
Wow, that a lot of info - do you really want it posted here; or only the first section?provide some information please (text, not raw)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/us ... ix-firefox
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Henry
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
henryg_1 wrote:Unfortunately, this is not available as an option. Any about:config change I could make to same effect?"Do you currently have this enabled? - Preferences > Privacy & Security: "Allow Firefox to install and run studies"
If so, disable it. This may solve it. The beta, however, may not allow you to opt-out as it is pre-release.
about:config
experiments.enabled set to false
experiments.activeExperiment set to false
extensions.ui.experiment.hidden set to true
close/restart the browser after the changes.
These are the pref's I changed long ago when 'experiments' was first introduced and to my knowledge none have ever pushed to my machine.
EDIT: also have a look at about:support (enter in the url bar) then scroll to bottom of page, there is a section there for 'experiments'. Do you have anything there ? That will the list any experiments.
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
copy all with the right button "copy to clipboard" and paste it here like this example:
Allgemeine Informationen
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Name: Firefox
Version: 57.0b12
Build-ID: 20171026211016
Update-Kanal: beta
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Betriebssystem: Windows_NT 6.3
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
Here are a couple of more things you can disable in about:config that may help:henryg_1 wrote:Unfortunately, this is not available as an option. Any about:config change I could make to same effect?
browser.onboarding.shieldstudy.enabled - false
extensions.shield-study-recipie-client.enabled - false
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
For anyone else that has the same problem (and like me didn't click on "learn more" )
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Heartbeat
Disabling Heartbeat
We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.
open about:config
set browser.selfsupport.url to "" (didn't exist, so created)
Apols for wasting everyones time
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Heartbeat
Disabling Heartbeat
We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.
open about:config
set browser.selfsupport.url to "" (didn't exist, so created)
Apols for wasting everyones time
Regards
Henry
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
go
c:\program files\Mozilla firefox\browser\features
and "opt-out" (to delete) all except "aushelper" and "e10srollout"
i am no dude in mozillas rat race!
c:\program files\Mozilla firefox\browser\features
and "opt-out" (to delete) all except "aushelper" and "e10srollout"
i am no dude in mozillas rat race!
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
henryg_1 wrote:For anyone else that has the same problem (and like me didn't click on "learn more" )
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Shield/Heartbeat
Disabling Heartbeat
We understand that any interruption of your time on the internet can be annoying.
open about:config
set browser.selfsupport.url to "" (didn't exist, so created)
Not sure if the same thing, or how this should be, but I just checked, and mine has:
browser.selfsupport.enabled set to false
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
I have no such pref...DN123ABC wrote:Not sure if the same thing, or how this should be, but I just checked, and mine has:
browser.selfsupport.enabled set to false
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Re: Stop Firefox constantly asking me to rate it
To henryg_1
Do you have this preference? extensions.shield-recipe-client.enabled
If so, double-click on it to set it to false.
Ref: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ra ... -heartbeat under Opting out.
Do you have this preference? extensions.shield-recipe-client.enabled
If so, double-click on it to set it to false.
Ref: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ra ... -heartbeat under Opting out.
Alice Wyman