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.
How did you figure out you are establishing a connection to google? Wireshark or similar?
Does it happen specifically as you open Firefox, or what do you mean with keeping ‘a connection permanently’? Which endpoint is it trying to reach?
I feel these are important details before people can help you out.
Firefox is trying to connect to 34.160.144.191 at startup. It continues the connection, perhaps to reuse it, or whatever.
Firefox should never talk to google. And if there is some database that google has that firefox needs, Firefox should duplicate that DB. The fact that I have this thing talking to google anytime I do anything is gross. Anyhow. Blah blah blah. I’m annoying! ;-)
I have a feeling it’s the safebrowsing. Will find out later. And then will disable.
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
Have you activated push notifications on some Google service?
