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.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • Hewert Hurggles@thelemmy.club
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      4 months ago

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

      • bazzett@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          Thats because it is so close to Firefox to not even be distinct, but the privacy settings are useful anyway. I’ve used it as a daily driver for a long time and have not yet found it lacking.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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!

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago
      $ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf
      • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        (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

        • grue@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          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.

          • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
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            4 months ago

            You’re going to miss out on great software with that approach. Even for packages that have a Debian apt version, I find it much safer to get it from the maintainers official repos. Get the same version as the apt package if you must.

          • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Nothing tainted about it. It’s actually one of the easiest ways to get a package you want/need. I appreciate anyone who maintains my precious librewolf package.

  • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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    4 months 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

  • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Hmm, I don’t think so in this case. Although I will check tomorrow. Thanks for the tip!