Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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?
[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?
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 for hits. In FF3 I believe the phishing filter submits every site to google as you browse, in real time. It may download the list, too. I'm not entirely sure. Disable Block reported web forgeries and Block reported attack sites in Firefo if you'd rather not (potentially) tell Google about every URL you ever visit. The host sb.google.com contains the lists.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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 to know everything. The same goes for googlesyndication. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Hard drives have two known states: new and full. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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 blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. Google doesn’t have to know everything. The same goes for googlesyndication. It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less Linux user in their stats. (But everyone uses Windows, look at the stats! Let's use ActiveX!)
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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 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 to know everything. The same goes for googlesyndication. It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less Linux user in their stats. (But everyone uses Windows, look at the stats! Let's use ActiveX!) * I will add that of course they can read their server logs, but you'd be surprised how many people rely solely on GA and don't even know how to read their server logs. Or on high-traffic sites the logs can be many gigabytes per day and they simply can't download them and store them.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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 it, Firefox periodically downloads a current list of malware addresses for its phising filter. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' LOL, you said ROFL. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
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 list of malware addresses for its phising filter. Thank you. Is this the checkbox: Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site. - Grant
