How to Disable Firefox Health Report?

Firefox 21 Beta has been released and available for testing with new features like three state of  UI for Do Not Track, ability to restore all removed thumbnails from most controversial New Tab Page and Health Report has been preliminarily implemented which has been already available on Nightly and Aurora builds.

Viewing Firefox health Report

To open Firefox health report, click on Firefox button and then hover mouse oven Help Submenu and select “Firefox Health Report” or type “about:healthreport” (without quotes) in address bar and press enter.

If you’ve visited Health Report on first day, at the bottom page shows tip to come back after couple of weeks to see more trends.

FYI, Firefox Beta comes with Data Sharing/Health Report is turned on by default for browser which means Firefox sends Raw data to Mozilla servers. If you’ve any Privacy concerns you can turn off data sharing or disable Firefox Health Report then all data Mozilla received will be deleted form their servers after 180 days.

Disabling Firefox Health Report/stop data sharing with Mozilla

I.  From Firefox Health Report page click on Data Sharing button which is on to turn it off.

Firefox Health Report with Data Sharing on off option thumb How to Disable Firefox Health Report?

II. You can also turn off Data sharing by disabling Firefox health report for that

1. Click on Firefox button>Options>Options

2. On Options window click on “Data Choices” tab and uncheck “Enable Firefox Health Report”

disabling Firefox health report thumb How to Disable Firefox Health Report?

3. Click ok to save the changes.

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Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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