Re: Problem with Konquerer on one site
11/05/2011 08:21, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Ma, 10 mai 11, 19:19:33, Wayne Topa wrote:
>>
>> Are you sure? Bring up an xterm and run iftop -nNB -i <your wlan
>> interface> and then bring up iceweasel but don't connect to the net.
>> If you don't see connections from Google/Mozilla and others I will
>> be very surprised. I recall a long thread 3-4 years ago where it
>> was discussed how to stop all of those probes. I was on dialup at
>> that time and my slow downloads would take hours to get here due to
>> all the probes from the net. There was no solution then IIRC.
>> Maybe there is none.
> Yes, I see connections to at least Google as well (with Iceweasel 4 from
> experimental). You might get rid of at least some by deactivating the
> automatic search for updates for extensions and search engines.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
OK, maybe this is relevant:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20makes%20unrequested%20connections
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Connections_established_on_startup_-_Firefox
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