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by shakna 1662 days ago
> I think it would be far less hostility if we as users got access to the information ourselves.

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.

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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.
That gave me a laugh. Had no idea this existed, thanks.
For those who may be curious, Firefox still lists all their metapages [0], which makes exploring under the hood pretty easy.

[0] about:about

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...

> 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.