Bug 2014470 - Send crash reports to console URL

[jonathanmendez]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2014470

Since crash reporting gets started very early before prefs are available, read console url directly from distribution.ini

• Null out the default server used in application.ini.h so that even if the distribution.ini file fails to be loaded, we don't send a crash report to a mozilla.com url.
• Add a default simplified distribution.ini that specifies console.enterfox.eu for local/non-repack builds

[fiji-flo]

As far as I can see we don't need the query parameters that's what I got in the payload anyhow:

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  "uuid": "22a30c5e-2244-4165-bbe7-e6d4eebcc949",
  "Notes": "-L1000-W0000000-T1) WR? WR+ ",
  "Vendor": "Mozilla",
  "BuildID": "20251215090548",
  "Version": "147.0",
  "SafeMode": "0",
  "UptimeTS": "11.083586083333332",
  "CrashTime": "1767889265",
  "ProductID": "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}",
  "InstallTime": "1765986083",
  "ProductName": "Firefox",
  "StartupTime": "1767889254",
  "HeadlessMode": "0",
  "StartupCrash": "0",
  "Throttleable": "1",
  "DOMIPCEnabled": "1",
  "SubmittedFrom": "Client",
  "MozCrashReason": "MOZ_CRASH(Crash via about:crashparent)",
  "ReleaseChannel": "beta",
  "AdapterVendorID": "0x106b",
  "GpuSandboxLevel": "1",
  "GPUProcessStatus": "Running",
  "RDDProcessStatus": "Running",
  "useragent_locale": "de",
  "DOMFissionEnabled": "1",
  "MacMemoryPressure": "Warning",
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  "StartupCacheValid": "1",
  "BackgroundTaskMode": "0",
  "AvailableSwapMemory": "790036480",
  "ContentSandboxLevel": "3",
  "LastStartupWasCrash": "0",
  "TotalPhysicalMemory": "25769803776",
  "submitted_timestamp": "2026-01-08T16:21:08.372724+00:00",
  "EMCheckCompatibility": "true",
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  "ContentSandboxCapable": "1",
  "GPUProcessLaunchCount": "1",
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[lissyx]

I dont think this is going to do what you want given the definition of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER and how we do builds right now.

[gcp]

Don't we have this flag set? I'm confused what you mean here.

[gcp]

Don't we have this flag set? I'm confused what you mean here.

[gcp]

Missing newline at the end. (That's what the symbol here means IIUC)

[gcp]

Of course in the comment view it explicitly says that now 🤣

[gcp]

For the other prefs that @fiji-flo is repacking, I think we make the entire URL configurable, see #373, so I wonder what he prefers here...

[fiji-flo]

I think the all should go the same domain for the foreseeable time. Ideally the repack only set's the console URL but that would require more work. So maybe for now we add the full urls.

[jonathanmendez]

If the ideal is "repack only specifies console URL, and we build the various other URLs from it", then it seems like the current state of the PR achieves that for the crash reporter URL. The "more work" that was required is already implemented for this case. Is it better to stick with the current implementation, or do we specify the full crash report URL separately in the repacks just to match the others for now?
Of note is that there is not an existing pref for the crash reporter URL.