Hello everyone, Firefox updated on my computer last night and, without asking me if I wanted it or not, the new Firefox has "Firefox Screenshots" was enabled by default. If you haven't seen this new built-in feature yet, one of its functions is to allow you to very easily save screenshots to an unsecured location in the cloud. Naturally anything that allows staff to, potentially, save confidential data to an unsecured location in the cloud causes me great concern and the only advice I can find from Mozilla is just an explanation of how to disable this new feature by turning it off using "about:config." Since I have to worry about staff at 51 different library locations with 2-20 staff computer per location, tuning this off using about:config is not feasible for me. My concern here isn't that staff will purposefully start taking screenshots like crazy and sharing them with their friends but that they will take a screenshot to share a problem or a concern with me or other staff and click on the button that saves the screenshot to the cloud without realizing that anyone with the URL will be able to access the screenshot. So, I looked at what is happening in Koha when you click on the screenshot icon or by right clicking on "Take a screenshot" and figured out that some jQuery would stop staff at all of our libraries from using this new feature. This should prevent anyone from accidentally saving confidential information somewhere where they shouldn't. The only thing that I don't like about this method of disabling this feature is that, if someone does try to use Firefox Screenshots while in the Koha staff client, they will probably end up with a pop-up message on their screen saying "Woah! Firefox Screenshots went haywire." If anyone else wants this jQuery for this, it's on the community wiki at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Disable_.28more-or-less.... See you all later, George -- George Williams NExpress Coordinator Send NExpress support e-mails to nexpresshelp@nekls.org
George, Thank you. Excellent information. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:02 PM, George <gwilliams@nekls.org> wrote:
Hello everyone,
Firefox updated on my computer last night and, without asking me if I wanted it or not, the new Firefox has "Firefox Screenshots" was enabled by default. If you haven't seen this new built-in feature yet, one of its functions is to allow you to very easily save screenshots to an unsecured location in the cloud. Naturally anything that allows staff to, potentially, save confidential data to an unsecured location in the cloud causes me great concern and the only advice I can find from Mozilla is just an explanation of how to disable this new feature by turning it off using "about:config." Since I have to worry about staff at 51 different library locations with 2-20 staff computer per location, tuning this off using about:config is not feasible for me. My concern here isn't that staff will purposefully start taking screenshots like crazy and sharing them with their friends but that they will take a screenshot to share a problem or a concern with me or other staff and click on the button that saves the screenshot to the cloud without realizing that anyone with the URL will be able to access the screenshot.
So, I looked at what is happening in Koha when you click on the screenshot icon or by right clicking on "Take a screenshot" and figured out that some jQuery would stop staff at all of our libraries from using this new feature. This should prevent anyone from accidentally saving confidential information somewhere where they shouldn't. The only thing that I don't like about this method of disabling this feature is that, if someone does try to use Firefox Screenshots while in the Koha staff client, they will probably end up with a pop-up message on their screen saying "Woah! Firefox Screenshots went haywire."
If anyone else wants this jQuery for this, it's on the community wiki at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Disable_ .28more-or-less.29_Firefox_Screenshots_on_all_pages_in_Koha
See you all later,
George -- George Williams NExpress Coordinator Send NExpress support e-mails to nexpresshelp@nekls.org _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Hi, On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:02 PM, George <gwilliams@nekls.org> wrote:
If anyone else wants this jQuery for this, it's on the community wiki at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Disable_.28more-or-less....
Thanks for the heads up, George! To supplement this, I note that if one's library is in a position to control their deployments of Firefox to library staff, the Screenshots feature can be disabled as described here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1168009 Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Open Library Initiative phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) email: gmc@equinoxInitiative.org web: https://equinoxInitiative.org direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366
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