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How can I stop firefox from connecting to google at startup. (lemmy.today)
submitted 6 days ago by blaggle42@lemmy.today to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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My home page is blank. My search engine is duckduck go.

I only have adblock and noscript.

I want firefox to not access google - ever. Right now it shows that it connects and maintains a connection permanently.

I find it infuritating actually.

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[–] bazzett@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

At your own risk, disable Safe Browsing. And add all Google domains to the blacklist of uBlock Origin. Or you can simply switch to LibreWolf and go on with your life.

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, Google Safe Browsing is probably the cause. Anyone curious can read more about it here, but that traffic at browser startup is probably going to Google's Safe Browsing API servers.

[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 3 points 5 days ago

I've disabled all of the safe browsing via about:config

still talks to google. weird. also it still keeps the connection open either for re-use or, dunno.

[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

f course not; it’s the distro that makes the call. But I want the Librewolf folks to make the effort to get accepted by the distro.

Hmm, I will try the LibreWolf - will also try disabling safe browsing.

Thanks for the info!

[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

Btw, disabling Safe Browsing didn't do the trick.

I did download LibreWolf. I have bad news - it does exactly the same thing.

Sigh. Maybe if you are using it you should profile it on osx or windows - or ntop linux I think will do it.

[–] Albin067@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

LibreWolf can't be a convenient daily driver. Need tweaks and tweaking default settings may reduce privacy and security slightly.

[–] bazzett@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yes, I've tried it multiple times, but, apart of the so-called "privacy features", I can't find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox. Well, I suppose that if you're really paranoid, or hate every single decision Mozilla makes with the force of a thousand suns, then it can be appealing.

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Thats because it is so close to Firefox to not even be distinct, but the privacy settings are useful anyway. I've used it as a daily driver for a long time and have not yet found it lacking.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago

apart of the so-called "privacy features", I can't find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox.

Because it's supposed to be Firefox but private. That's literally the only distinction.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children) 
$ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

[https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/]

We have a repository for Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), with which you can easily install and update LibreWolf. To add it to your system and install LibreWolf, run the following commands one by one:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y

sudo extrepo enable librewolf && sudo extrepo update librewolf

sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y