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How can I stop firefox from connecting to google at startup. (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago by 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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[–] 22 points 8 months ago (19 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.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 months 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (11 children) 
    $ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf
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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (10 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

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  • [+] -10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

    I don't want to have to "taint" my distro install by adding a repo. I want it to be available from my distro's official repo.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Adding a repo is not "tainting" an install. Adding a package to the official repo is not the responsibility of the devs but of Debian's package maintainers.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (2 children)

    https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

    Anyway, the bottom line is that if LibreWolf folks want more people to use their software, then one of them ought to become a Debian package maintainer for that package.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    The only relevant part in that link is this:

    Some third-party repositories might appear safe to use as they contain only packages that have no equivalent in Debian. However, there are no guarantees that any repository will not add more packages in future, leading to breakage.

    And you should be safe about this.

    As I was saying, the devs are not responsible for including the package to the official repo. You are owed nothing and have plenty of other options to install it.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    As for your bottom line remember the contributors are working on it for free, they are not selling anything. So they are not running after more users. It's good as it is, non technical people can use flatpack or AppImage and technical people can add a repo without issues.

    And someday someone could add it to the official repo, it could be you.

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