# Possible issue with new data\_collection\_permissions soon to be required?
**URL:** https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829
**Category:** Add-on Support
**Created:** [December 24, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829 "2025-12-24T03:00:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Rhialto](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Rhialto)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829/1 "2025-12-24T03:00:09Z")
I just did an update and got a warning about adding this, still not mandatory for now but I tried to add it and there was a conflict because I also use **“strict\_min\_version”: “139.0”** which I need because Tab Groups were released with 139.0 and not present in previous versions.
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### Author:  [@juraj.masiar](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/juraj.masiar)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829/2 "2025-12-24T08:30:00Z")
As mentioned in the blog, the data collection permissions is supported only from version 140:
> **[Announcing data collection consent changes for new Firefox extensions –...](https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/10/23/data-collection-consent-changes-for-new-firefox-extensions/)**
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> As of November 3rd 2025, all new Firefox extensions will be required to specify if they collect or transmit personal data in their manifest.json file using the browser\_specific\_settings.gecko.data\_collection\_permissions key. This ...
So you should change your strict min version to 140.
This is also nicely aligned with the latest ESR version - Firefox ESR 140.
Note that majority of users will either be running latest release or ESR release, so there really should be almost nobody using Firefox 139 anymore.
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### Author:  [@Rhialto](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Rhialto)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829/4 "2025-12-24T14:02:38Z")
ok, I’ll change to 140 in a future release.
Have a nice day!
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### Author:  [@Rhialto](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/Rhialto)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829/5 "2026-01-31T03:53:37Z")
I’m trying to upload a new update and this time I tried this:
`“browser_specific_settings”: {`
`“gecko”: {`
`“id”: “{abc123}”,`
`“strict_min_version”: “140.0”,`
`“data_collection_permissions”: {`
`“required”: [“none”]`
`}`
`}`
`}`
and I get this message but I’m not targeting Android at all, only `gecko`
but still validate so all is good, I just wanted to point that out.
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### Author:  [@ariel.risky](https://discourse.mozilla.org/u/ariel.risky)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2026, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/possible-issue-with-new-data-collection-permissions-soon-to-be-required/146829/6 "2026-02-01T11:59:59Z")
For quit a while now I’m having the same issue regarding the **permissions.request** API that is not implemented in the Android version that I’m not targeting.
Very annoying.
