Narcis, I'm not sure if there is a plugin for Firefox.
Gary, please, see below my diagnosis. Looks like Gnuzilla (52.1.0 64bit) does
not open so many auto-connections as the official Firefox. I was able to catch
the following hosts:
location.services.mozilla.com
detectportal.firefox.com
shavar.services.mozilla.com
safebrowsing.google.com
services.addons.mozilla.org
versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.org
eff.org
To avoid these ones, I did the following in the Preferences:
- General: Show a blank page
- Search: removed all the suggested search engines and let only 1 there.
- Privacy: Tracking=disabled, Always apply "Do Not Track" = unchecked, Location
Bar = 3 unchecked (History, Bookmarks, Open tabs).
- Security: Block dangerous and deceptive content = disabled
- Sync = empty
- Advanced: Query OCSP responder server ..." = unchecked
and in the about:config:
browser.search.geoip.url = ""
network.captive-portal-service.enabled = false
browser.safebrowsing.blockedURIs.enabled = false
I believe there are a few others which automatically activate themselves after
a period of time, but I couldn't catch them. I'm using tcpdump to monitor the
connections.
My suggestion is still open: please, give the CHOICE for the users to disable
all of those auto-connections during the first execution, and make this an
extra option in the Preferences dialog.
Thanks for your attention.
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