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How To Get Rid Of Annoying Pop Up Bar About Sending Data To Firefox

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That information bar that pops up at bottom of page regarding sending data to help improve Firefox - my question is how to stop it from popping up once and for all...

Unchecking the box enable Telemetry doesn't work - it still pops up...

Can it be permanently disabled by way of about:config? If so, how?

I'm using Firefox 20 since it plays nice with Easy You Tube Downloader...

That information bar that pops up at bottom of page regarding sending data to help improve Firefox - my question is how to stop it from popping up once and for all... Unchecking the box enable Telemetry doesn't work - it still pops up... Can it be permanently disabled by way of about:config? If so, how? I'm using Firefox 20 since it plays nice with Easy You Tube Downloader...

Modified by Capt-Dan

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I haven't had a telemetry pop-up since I disabled it in the Options/Advanced/Data-choices tab. Which results in about:config settings of...

toolkit.telemetry.enabled - false
toolkit.telemetry.prompted - 2
toolkit.telemetry.rejected - true

With the latter two being marked as user-set. The first being default.

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled - false

is also user set.

How do your settings compare?

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I haven't had a telemetry pop-up since I disabled it in the Options/Advanced/Data-choices tab. Which results in about:config settings of...

toolkit.telemetry.enabled - false
toolkit.telemetry.prompted - 2
toolkit.telemetry.rejected - true

With the latter two being marked as user-set. The first being default.

datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled - false

is also user set.

How do your settings compare?

Modified by Paul451

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Thanks for the reply Paul - my settings now correspond with what you indicated - thanks!