On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Grant wrote:
> I have a remote system on which shorewall blocks all outgoing 80/443
> traffic except for 1 destination IP.  I noticed that whenever someone
> logs in to an xfce4 session on that system, I see a bunch of rejected
> 80/443 requests from that system to various Google IPs from throughout
> their session.  Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for
> some reason?  The person logging in says they aren't attempting to
> access Google, and the home page is not set to go there.  Does anyone
> know why this might be happening?
>
> - Grant

It may have something to do with the default search engine in FF's drop down 
search field.

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Regards,
Mick

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