Firefox wants a flipping medal?

[antikythera]

I just got a popup telling me Firefox has blocked over 1000 trackers since August 2022, I couldn't care less about the numbers involved as long as it's working.

It should get on with the job discretely rather than the "look at me, aren't I clever!" approach. I'd have to assume this new popup came with 103 build as it's not happened before

There's nothing in settings or about:config to prevent it

[Cosmo.]

I have FF 103 running since 26th July, 103.0.1 since 3rd August. I saw never something like this. I also do not find anything in about:support.

[antikythera]

It's a purple bubble type notification popup that came up over the address bar, I was surprised to see it to be fair. I'll try and screenshot it on my other machine if it comes up.

in about:config there's

browser.protections_panel.infoMessage.seen = true

and security.protectionspopup.recordEventTelemetry = true

but no entry to prevent it, unless now permanently blocked by the InfoMessage.seen. I won't hold my breath though

[Cosmo.]

Both values are here identical as for you.

Is there any related extension installed?

[antikythera]

It's stock firefox for linux mint, I don't use extensions

[Avatar1]

I think they are copying Safari. Safari does this on my iPad.

The ridiculous thing is, it will say "We blocked 175 trackers in the past week!" when I haven't used the iPad in a month (and it hasn't been connected to the network).

I have yet to see this in Firefox. Do they back up their statement with any sort of report?

[Hoser Rob]

Stuiff like this is why I switched to firefox-esr. It works the same as an older (non-crapola) release and gets the security updates. Much better. It's the default FF in Debian, they aren't dumb when it comes to what Linux users want.

[SMG]

It's stock firefox for linux mint,

Was it a version that was installed after Mint changed to using the standard Mozilla version or before?

I also do not have any extensions, but what I discovered when I ran into some recent issues is the setting changes I had before Mint changed to the standard Mozilla version impacted my resulting product. Somehow I have in my current setup things which are not possible to obtain if I start over fresh. It relates to previously standard GUI options which were available in past versions that I set. When I updated to Mint's Mozilla version those options I set stuck even though they are no longer available. That's the conclusion I've reached at this point in my investigation.

By the way, I've not seen this pop-up on my install.

[antikythera]

LMDE5 came with the Mozilla appeasing standardised build and this is was on clean install of LMDE5, there was another update tonight to 103.2 and the aforementioned flag browser.protections_panel.infoMessage.seen = true did not reset to false. So that hopefully means it was a one off incident.

Don't worry about moving it again to the LMDE section. I put it in other since it's not really a support request but an observation.

[antikythera]

There's also a really poor quality sand timer page loading symbol on tabs now, it looks like something from the late 80s when GUI were still in their infancy.