Re: Problem with Konquerer on one site (Solution for firefox FIX!!)

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 05/11/2011 03:55 AM, tv.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> 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.

Those made a big difference!!

> > 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

Thank you Andrei!!!   These links are the answer to the Firefox hits I 
was getting.  I changed only 3 items and am now able to use firefox in
the same manner as rekonq or konqueror.  No more loss of bandwidth or
MB's of my download allocation.

I can't say thank you enough.

Best Regards
Wayne