services/healthreport/docs/index.rst@97036ab72558 (annotated)
services/healthreport/docs/index.rst
Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100
- author
- Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
- date
- Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:39:09 +0100
- branch
- TOR_BUG_9701
- changeset 8
- 97036ab72558
- permissions
- -rw-r--r--
Conditionally force memory storage according to privacy.thirdparty.isolate;
This solves Tor bug #9701, complying with disk avoidance documented in
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#disk-avoidance.
| michael@0 | 1 | .. _healthreport: |
| michael@0 | 2 | |
| michael@0 | 3 | ===================== |
| michael@0 | 4 | Firefox Health Report |
| michael@0 | 5 | ===================== |
| michael@0 | 6 | |
| michael@0 | 7 | ``/services/healthreport`` contains the implementation of the |
| michael@0 | 8 | ``Firefox Health Report`` (FHR). |
| michael@0 | 9 | |
| michael@0 | 10 | Firefox Health Report is a background service that collects application |
| michael@0 | 11 | metrics and periodically submits them to a central server. The core |
| michael@0 | 12 | parts of the service are implemented in this directory. However, the |
| michael@0 | 13 | actual XPCOM service is implemented in the |
| michael@0 | 14 | :ref:`data_reporting_service`. |
| michael@0 | 15 | |
| michael@0 | 16 | The core types can actually be instantiated multiple times and used to |
| michael@0 | 17 | power multiple data submission services within a single Gecko |
| michael@0 | 18 | application. In other words, everything in this directory is effectively |
| michael@0 | 19 | a reusable library. However, the terminology and some of the features |
| michael@0 | 20 | are very specific to what the Firefox Health Report feature requires. |
| michael@0 | 21 | |
| michael@0 | 22 | .. toctree:: |
| michael@0 | 23 | :maxdepth: 1 |
| michael@0 | 24 | |
| michael@0 | 25 | architecture |
| michael@0 | 26 | dataformat |
| michael@0 | 27 | identifiers |
| michael@0 | 28 | |
| michael@0 | 29 | Legal and Privacy Concerns |
| michael@0 | 30 | ========================== |
| michael@0 | 31 | |
| michael@0 | 32 | Because Firefox Health Report collects and submits data to remote |
| michael@0 | 33 | servers and is an opt-out feature, there are legal and privacy |
| michael@0 | 34 | concerns over what data may be collected and submitted. **Additions or |
| michael@0 | 35 | changes to submitted data should be signed off by responsible |
| michael@0 | 36 | parties.** |
