Open Bug 1797343 Opened 2 years ago

Add user-visible preference opting out of background (update) task notifications

Categories

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Application Update
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: nalexander, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Right now, the mechanism from Bug 1776514 disables background (update) task notifications when the user's default browsing profile has either

  • datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled=false or
  • app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled=false

As we work on a SUMO KB article about the MR update notification, I wonder about a specific user-visible preference opting out of just background (update) task experiments or notifications. This ticket tracks implementing something like that.

There are a few parts to this work:

  • fixing a preference
  • exposing the preference to about:preferences when appropriate
  • consuming it in the relevant BackgroundTasksUtils.jsm helpers (or in the Nimbus code directly)
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