Environment¶
The environment consists of data that is expected to be characteristic for performance and other behavior and not expected to change too often.
Changes to most of these data points are detected (where possible and sensible) and will lead to a session split in the “main” ping. The environment data may also be submitted by other ping types.
Note: This is not submitted with all ping types due to privacy concerns. This and other data is inspected under the data collection policy.
Some parts of the environment must be fetched asynchronously at startup. We don’t want other Telemetry components to block on waiting for the environment, so some items may be missing from it until the async fetching finished. This currently affects the following sections:
- profile
- addons
Structure:
{
build: {
applicationId: <string>, // nsIXULAppInfo.ID
applicationName: <string>, // "Firefox"
architecture: <string>, // e.g. "x86", build architecture for the active build
architecturesInBinary: <string>, // e.g. "i386-x86_64", from nsIMacUtils.architecturesInBinary, only present for mac universal builds
buildId: <string>, // e.g. "20141126041045"
version: <string>, // e.g. "35.0"
vendor: <string>, // e.g. "Mozilla"
platformVersion: <string>, // e.g. "35.0"
xpcomAbi: <string>, // e.g. "x86-msvc"
hotfixVersion: <string>, // e.g. "20141211.01"
},
settings: {
addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled: <bool>, // Whether application compatibility is respected for add-ons
blocklistEnabled: <bool>, // true on failure
isDefaultBrowser: <bool>, // null on failure, not available on Android
defaultSearchEngine: <string>, // e.g. "yahoo"
defaultSearchEngineData: {, // data about the current default engine
name: <string>, // engine name, e.g. "Yahoo"; or "NONE" if no default
loadPath: <string>, // where the engine line is located; missing if no default
origin: <string>, // 'default', 'verified', 'unverified', or 'invalid'; based on the presence and validity of the engine's loadPath verification hash.
submissionURL: <string> // missing if no default or for user-installed engines
},
searchCohort: <string>, // optional, contains an identifier for any active search A/B experiments
e10sEnabled: <bool>, // whether e10s is on, i.e. browser tabs open by default in a different process
e10sCohort: <string>, // which e10s cohort was assigned for this user
telemetryEnabled: <bool>, // false on failure
locale: <string>, // e.g. "it", null on failure
update: {
channel: <string>, // e.g. "release", null on failure
enabled: <bool>, // true on failure
autoDownload: <bool>, // true on failure
},
userPrefs: {
// Only prefs which are changed from the default value are listed
// in this block
"pref.name.value": value // some prefs send the value
"pref.name.url": "<user-set>" // For some privacy-sensitive prefs
// only the fact that the value has been changed is recorded
},
},
profile: {
creationDate: <integer>, // integer days since UNIX epoch, e.g. 16446
resetDate: <integer>, // integer days since UNIX epoch, e.g. 16446 - optional
},
partner: { // This section may not be immediately available on startup
distributionId: <string>, // pref "distribution.id", null on failure
distributionVersion: <string>, // pref "distribution.version", null on failure
partnerId: <string>, // pref mozilla.partner.id, null on failure
distributor: <string>, // pref app.distributor, null on failure
distributorChannel: <string>, // pref app.distributor.channel, null on failure
partnerNames: [
// list from prefs app.partner.<name>=<name>
],
},
system: {
memoryMB: <number>,
virtualMaxMB: <number>, // windows-only
isWow64: <bool>, // windows-only
cpu: {
count: <number>, // desktop only, e.g. 8, or null on failure - logical cpus
cores: <number>, // desktop only, e.g., 4, or null on failure - physical cores
vendor: <string>, // desktop only, e.g. "GenuineIntel", or null on failure
family: <number>, // desktop only, null on failure
model: <number, // desktop only, null on failure
stepping: <number>, // desktop only, null on failure
l2cacheKB: <number>, // L2 cache size in KB, only on windows & mac
l3cacheKB: <number>, // desktop only, L3 cache size in KB
speedMHz: <number>, // desktop only, cpu clock speed in MHz
extensions: [
<string>,
...
// as applicable:
// "MMX", "SSE", "SSE2", "SSE3", "SSSE3", "SSE4A", "SSE4_1",
// "SSE4_2", "AVX", "AVX2", "EDSP", "ARMv6", "ARMv7", "NEON"
],
},
device: { // This section is only available on mobile devices.
model: <string>, // the "device" from FHR, null on failure
manufacturer: <string>, // null on failure
hardware: <string>, // null on failure
isTablet: <bool>, // null on failure
},
os: {
name: <string>, // "Windows_NT" or null on failure
version: <string>, // e.g. "6.1", null on failure
kernelVersion: <string>, // android/b2g only or null on failure
servicePackMajor: <number>, // windows only or null on failure
servicePackMinor: <number>, // windows only or null on failure
windowsBuildNumber: <number>, // windows 10 only or null on failure
windowsUBR: <number>, // windows 10 only or null on failure
installYear: <number>, // windows only or null on failure
locale: <string>, // "en" or null on failure
},
hdd: {
profile: { // hdd where the profile folder is located
model: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
revision: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
},
binary: { // hdd where the application binary is located
model: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
revision: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
},
system: { // hdd where the system files are located
model: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
revision: <string>, // windows only or null on failure
},
},
gfx: {
D2DEnabled: <bool>, // null on failure
DWriteEnabled: <bool>, // null on failure
//DWriteVersion: <string>, // temporarily removed, pending bug 1154500
adapters: [
{
description: <string>, // e.g. "Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600", null on failure
vendorID: <string>, // null on failure
deviceID: <string>, // null on failure
subsysID: <string>, // null on failure
RAM: <number>, // in MB, null on failure
driver: <string>, // null on failure
driverVersion: <string>, // null on failure
driverDate: <string>, // null on failure
GPUActive: <bool>, // currently always true for the first adapter
},
...
],
// Note: currently only added on Desktop. On Linux, only a single
// monitor is returned representing the entire virtual screen.
monitors: [
{
screenWidth: <number>, // screen width in pixels
screenHeight: <number>, // screen height in pixels
refreshRate: <number>, // refresh rate in hertz (present on Windows only).
// (values <= 1 indicate an unknown value)
pseudoDisplay: <bool>, // networked screen (present on Windows only)
scale: <number>, // backing scale factor (present on Mac only)
},
...
],
features: {
compositor: <string>, // Layers backend for compositing (eg "d3d11", "none", "opengl")
// Each the following features can have one of the following statuses:
// "unused" - This feature has not been requested.
// "unavailable" - Safe Mode or OS restriction prevents use.
// "blocked" - Blocked due to an internal condition such as safe mode.
// "blacklisted" - Blocked due to a blacklist restriction.
// "disabled" - User explicitly disabled this default feature.
// "failed" - This feature was attempted but failed to initialize.
// "available" - User has this feature available.
"d3d11" { // This feature is Windows-only.
status: <string>,
warp: <bool>, // Software rendering (WARP) mode was chosen.
textureSharing: <bool> // Whether or not texture sharing works.
version: <number>, // The D3D11 device feature level.
blacklisted: <bool>, // Whether D3D11 is blacklisted; use to see whether WARP
// was blacklist induced or driver-failure induced.
},
"d2d" { // This feature is Windows-only.
status: <string>,
version: <string>, // Either "1.0" or "1.1".
},
},
},
},
addons: {
activeAddons: { // the currently enabled addons
<addon id>: {
blocklisted: <bool>,
description: <string>, // null if not available
name: <string>,
userDisabled: <bool>,
appDisabled: <bool>,
version: <string>,
scope: <integer>,
type: <string>, // "extension", "service", ...
foreignInstall: <bool>,
hasBinaryComponents: <bool>
installDay: <number>, // days since UNIX epoch, 0 on failure
updateDay: <number>, // days since UNIX epoch, 0 on failure
signedState: <integer>, // whether the add-on is signed by AMO, only present for extensions
isSystem: <bool>, // true if this is a System Add-on
},
...
},
theme: { // the active theme
id: <string>,
blocklisted: <bool>,
description: <string>,
name: <string>,
userDisabled: <bool>,
appDisabled: <bool>,
version: <string>,
scope: <integer>,
foreignInstall: <bool>,
hasBinaryComponents: <bool>
installDay: <number>, // days since UNIX epoch, 0 on failure
updateDay: <number>, // days since UNIX epoch, 0 on failure
},
activePlugins: [
{
name: <string>,
version: <string>,
description: <string>,
blocklisted: <bool>,
disabled: <bool>,
clicktoplay: <bool>,
mimeTypes: [<string>, ...],
updateDay: <number>, // days since UNIX epoch, 0 on failure
},
...
],
activeGMPlugins: {
<gmp id>: {
version: <string>,
userDisabled: <bool>,
applyBackgroundUpdates: <integer>,
},
...
},
activeExperiment: { // section is empty if there's no active experiment
id: <string>, // id
branch: <string>, // branch name
},
persona: <string>, // id of the current persona, null on GONK
},
}
build¶
buildId¶
Firefox builds downloaded from mozilla.org use a 14-digit buildId. Builds included in other distributions may have a different format (e.g. only 10 digits).
Settings¶
defaultSearchEngine¶
Note: Deprecated, use defaultSearchEngineData instead.
Contains the string identifier or name of the default search engine provider. This will not be present in environment data collected before the Search Service initialization.
The special value NONE could occur if there is no default search engine.
The special value UNDEFINED could occur if a default search engine exists but its identifier could not be determined.
This field’s contents are Services.search.defaultEngine.identifier (if defined) or "other-" + Services.search.defaultEngine.name if not. In other words, search engines without an .identifier are prefixed with other-.
defaultSearchEngineData¶
Contains data identifying the engine currently set as the default.
The object contains:
- a
nameproperty with the name of the engine, orNONEif no engine is currently set as the default. - a
loadPathproperty: an anonymized path of the engine xml file, e.g. jar:[app]/omni.ja!browser/engine.xml (where ‘browser’ is the name of the chrome package, not a folder) [profile]/searchplugins/engine.xml [distribution]/searchplugins/common/engine.xml [other]/engine.xml - an
originproperty: the value will bedefaultfor engines that are built-in or from distribution partners,verifiedfor user-installed engines with valid verification hashes,unverifiedfor non-default engines without verification hash, andinvalidfor engines with broken verification hashes. - a
submissionURLproperty with the HTTP url we would use to search. For privacy, we don’t record this for user-installed engines.
loadPath and submissionURL are not present if name is NONE.
searchCohort¶
If the user has been enrolled into a search default change experiment, this contains the string identifying the experiment the user is taking part in. Most user profiles will never be part of any search default change experiment, and will not send this value.
userPrefs¶
This object contains user preferences.
Each key in the object is the name of a preference. A key’s value depends on the policy with which the preference was collected. There are two such policies, “value” and “state”. For preferences collected under the “value” policy, the value will be the preference’s value. For preferences collected under the “state” policy, the value will be an opaque marker signifying only that the preference has a user value. The “state” policy is therefore used when user privacy is a concern.
The following is a partial list of collected preferences.
browser.search.suggest.enabled: The “master switch” for search suggestions everywhere in Firefox (search bar, urlbar, etc.). Defaults to true.browser.urlbar.suggest.searches: True if search suggestions are enabled in the urlbar. Defaults to false.browser.urlbar.userMadeSearchSuggestionsChoice: True if the user has clicked Yes or No in the urlbar’s opt-in notification. Defaults to false.browser.zoom.full: True if zoom is enabled for both text and images, that is if “Zoom Text Only” is not enabled. Defaults to true. Collection of this preference has been enabled in Firefox 50 and will be disabled again in Firefox 53 (Bug 979323).
partner¶
If the user is using a partner repack, this contains information identifying the repack being used, otherwise “partnerNames” will be an empty array and other entries will be null. The information may be missing when the profile just becomes available. In Firefox for desktop, the information along with other customizations defined in distribution.ini are processed later in the startup phase, and will be fully applied when “distribution-customization-complete” notification is sent.
Distributions are most reliably identified by the distributionId field. Partner information can be found in the partner repacks (the old one is deprecated): it contains one private repository per partner.
Important values for distributionId include:
- “MozillaOnline” for the Mozilla China repack.
- “canonical”, for the Ubuntu Firefox repack.
- “yandex”, for the Firefox Build by Yandex.
system¶
os¶
This object contains operating system information.
name: the name of the OS.version: a string representing the OS version.kernelVersion: an Android/B2G only string representing the kernel version.servicePackMajor: the Windows only major version number for the installed service pack.servicePackMinor: the Windows only minor version number for the installed service pack.windowsBuildNumber: the Windows build number, only available for Windows >= 10.windowsUBR: the Windows UBR number, only available for Windows >= 10. This value is incremented by Windows cumulative updates patches.installYear: the Windows only integer representing the year the OS was installed.locale: the string representing the OS locale.