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

2009-09-23 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?

2009-09-23 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?

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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

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’t have

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

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de 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'm

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

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de 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

[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.

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

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 disabled

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 current