Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by throwaway946513 on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:21AM
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I didn't know this existed - thank you for sharing. I've shared telemetry on Firefox, but wasn't sure exactly what was being sent so this helps quite a bit more.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by seanw444 on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:26AM
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That gave me a laugh. Had no idea this existed, thanks.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by shakna on Monday November 29, 2021 @09:36AM
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For those who may be curious, Firefox still lists all their metapages [0], which makes exploring under the hood pretty easy.
[0] about:about
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by sfink on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:56PM
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I don't think it lists 100% of them. For example, I think there might be one that forces a crash for debugging purposes? There are definitely some that are used for displaying errors and things (eg about:httpsonlyerror).
You could probably find more with searchfox, using a better query than https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/search?q=about%3A&path...
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by shakna on Monday November 29, 2021 @03:11PM
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> About About
> This is a list of “about” pages for your convenience.
> Some of them might be confusing. Some are for diagnostic purposes only.
> And some are omitted because they require query strings.
Some are omitted. Like about:blank.
Go to about:telemetry
There are several pages detailing all of that information, and you can also get all of that data as the JSON payload if you want to munge and display it yourself.