[opensuse] Firefox phones home/Google

Hi list.


Just when I wanted to debug a web problem, I saw tcpdump
showing Firefox making silent requests to Google. (wtf at this point!)
To reproduce: Open a random webpage (preferably one that does not
reference external content, e.g. http://jengelh.hopto.org/ ; local
files don't trigger it)


14:23:03.581788 IP 10.10.106.161.50386 > 134.76.10.66.3128: P 1:691(690)
ack 1 win 5840
E....a@.@...

j..L
B...8"..%.g..P.......GET http://sb.google.com/safebrowsing/update?client=navclient-auto-ffox2.0.0.2pre&mozver=1.8.1.2pre-2006102300&version=goog-white-domain:1:19,goog-white-url:1:371,goog-black-url:1:8400,goog-black-enchash:1:17514 HTTP/1.1
Host: sb.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre)
Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.1-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.2pre
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: UTF-8,*
Keep-Alive: 300
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PREF=ID=b81b7fa78ae17cf1:TM=1168225067:LM=1168225067:S=xIIiZGyQbydqdfSG


Can I _please_ get information why there's spyware like this in Firefox?
Added by SUSE?

(I don't have the Google Toolbar installed, which, in itself, already
transmits data unwanted, leading to congestion on modem lines.)


Jan
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