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FFOX-00-000014 Background submission of information to Mozilla must be disabled.

DISA STIG library V6R9
All changes in this version
first version loaded CAT II

Maps to CM-7 via CCI-000381

Title

Background submission of information to Mozilla must be disabled.

Control

Type "about:policies" in the browser window. If "DisableTelemetry" is not displayed under Policy Name or the Policy Value is not "true", this is a finding.

Discussion

Firefox by default sends information about Firefox to Mozilla servers. There should be no background submission of technical and other information from DoD computers to Mozilla with portions posted publicly.

Related controls

CCI-000381

Fix

Windows group policy: 1. Open the group policy editor tool with "gpedit.msc". 2. Navigate to Policy Path: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Mozilla\Firefox Policy Name: Disable Telemetry Policy State: Enabled macOS "plist" file: Add the following: DisableTelemetry Linux "policies.json" file: Add the following in the policies section: "DisableTelemetry": true