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
