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How can I stop firefox from connecting to google at startup. (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 week 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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[–] blaggle42@lemmy.today 0 points 6 days ago

Ok I have some news -

It's not safebrowsing - or probably not - maybe I just can't turn it off now or something.

So I

  • "refreshed" firefox to get to original state
  • disabled all of safebrowsing via settings and then via about:config -> "safebr*.enabled"
  • disabled all telemetry that got turned on via refresh
  • turned off fucking AI

Nothing worked.

Eventually got logs running with: "export MOZ_LOG=timestamp,rotate:200,nsHttp:5,cache2:5,nsSocketTransport:100,nsHostResolver:100"

found out mozilla is doing fucking push notifications?? wtf. that resolves to google? turned that off.

Anyway, it does a bunch of shit. All talking to google in the end.

I hate Firefox. I'm so over all of this.

When I start the browser, and it is blank, and I have done nothing, it should do nothing. If it needs some base certificate updates, it should do this once a week. Or never. Let me decide.

Talking to google, even doing dns lookups every fucking time I open a browser. God. Who are these people. /rant