Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: >>> Grant schrieb: >>> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> does this also include stuff like

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: >> Grant schrieb: >> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] >> >> Hi, >> >> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds >> on the homepage? > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: > Grant schrieb: > > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds > on the homepage? I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. Google doesn’

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know if Firefox downloads its website lists from Google? I think in FF1 and FF2 it would periodically download a list of "bad" URLs (FF1) or a list of hashes of bad domain names (FF1 and FF2) and check the local list for hits. In FF3 I

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-23 Thread Grant
>> [snip]  and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds on > the homepage? Good question, I will test for that. Does anyone know if Firefox downloads its website lists from Google? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread KH
Grant schrieb: [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] Hi, does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds on the homepage? kh http://www.ghostery.com/apps/google_analytics

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Grant
>> 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? > > If you haven’t disabled it, Firefox periodically downloads a

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb Grant: > 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? If you haven’t disab

Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Mick
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 var

[gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?

2009-09-22 Thread Grant
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. Doe