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I keep getting this error: Firefox automatically sends some data to Mozilla so that we can improve your experience

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I want to turn this off and I searched and found an older solution. It shows that I should put about:preferences#advanced in the address bar and select data choices. Data choices is not available to choose! This is very annoying to have popup every time. Thanks in advance. u4ea

I want to turn this off and I searched and found an older solution. It shows that I should put about:preferences#advanced in the address bar and select data choices. Data choices is not available to choose! This is very annoying to have popup every time. Thanks in advance. u4ea

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Would you please try this :

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar datareporting.healthreport

and look for the preferences :

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled

datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled

datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun

Set their values to false - then close and restart Firefox.

Does that do the trick  ?

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Here's how:

1) Type about:preferences#privacy in the URL bar and press enter.

2) Scroll down until you see Firefox Data Collection & Use

3) Uncheck what you do not wish to share.

4) Restart Firefox.

If this solved your problem, please mark as solution.

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This did not work. There are three boxes and none are checked, so I can't uncheck anything.

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Go to Preferences/Privacy & Security.

Your options should look like the attached screenshot.

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Went to Preferences/Privacy & Security This did not work. There are three boxes and none are checked, so I can't uncheck anything.

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Would you please try this :

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter) (promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar datareporting.healthreport

and look for the preferences :

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled

datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled

datareporting.healthreport.service.firstRun

Set their values to false - then close and restart Firefox.

Does that do the trick  ?

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You can also look at the telemetry prefs.

toolkit.telemetry.enabled = false
toolkit.telemetry.server = <blank>
toolkit.telemetry.unified = false
toolkit.telemetry.unifiedIsOptIn = false
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u4ea said

I want to turn this off and I searched and found an older solution. It shows that I should put about:preferences#advanced in the address bar and select data choices. Data choices is not available to choose! This is very annoying to have popup every time. Thanks in advance. u4ea

I think this solved my problem! Thank you very much for the help!

I really do appreciate you taking the time to help me and others!

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u4ea said

I think this solved my problem! Thank you very much for the help! I really do appreciate you taking the time to help me and others!

I'm sure that I speak for my fellow contributors as well, when I say :

My pleasure - glad you're problem is solved  !

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If you want to hide the notification itself, like when creating blank profile for users and not wanting them being bothered by it:

user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyAcceptedVersion", 2); user_pref("datareporting.policy.dataSubmissionPolicyNotifiedTime", "1533619817422");

The time is current, from around now when I was writing this. Maybe it would need to be changed.