Re: Does Firefox auto link to Google?
- From: "Balwinder S \"bsd\" Dheeman" <bsd.SANSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:57:13 +0530
On 04/19/2007 12:59 AM, Sam Coley wrote:
I am on a dialup rural phone line that maxes out at about 24k so I am very
sensitive to bandwidth, since I have almost none. I can surf ok, but it
is a lot more pleasant if I have another task that I can do on another
virtual desktop until some of these bloated websites finally download all
the ads.
After I installed FireFox 2.0, I noticed long pauses in my pages loading.
The page is frozen for many seconds, or updates very slowly, but the modem
receive lite is usually on solid. I am not a technical network person,
but I began to try to find out what is trying to load. If I was on
Windows I would automatically assume that spyware had taken over, but this
is Debian.
If I run netstat with various options when the surfing is stalled, I alway
find a connection to Google. Every time. If I check at random during
times that I am running full speed, netstat shows no Google connection.
If I test using Konquerer or an old Mozilla it doesn't happen. Another
test is to clear Firefox of cookies, cache, and history, then dialup and
surf to some random site. Shortly thereafter, in comes the Google link.
Making the connection and then just letting the browser sit does not get
the google connection. I have to click on an actual site somewhere.
I tried to check for the same problem on my machine at the office, which
has an almost identical software configuration as my home machine, but the
connection is so fast that what would take 10 or 20 seconds at home would
be a microsecond there. I would have to use some kind of network sniffer
to catch it.
I doubt that Google has pulled a Sony and put out a rootkit or whatever.
That revelation would be all over the 'Net in a millisecond. So I assume
that Firefox has something built in that connects to Google for some
update, or info, or something to make surfing more efficient. I know that
there is a Google toolbar available, but that is not installed and is the
first thing I looked for. In fact, I have everything turned off that I
could find in the menus, like popups, images, updates and so forth. Can't
afford the bandwidth waste.
Again, I very much doubt that this is something sinister on the part of
either Google or the Firefox folks, and a person on broadband or even a
decent dialup would never notice it since it would represent only an
infinitesimal piece of their bandwidth. But it really hoses me on my
barbed wire line to the phone company.
Anybody got any ideas of what is happening?
Hum, it would have been better you tell us the exact version numbers
and, or release dates of your Firefox and Debian and particularly how
and from where you installed your Firefox.
IMHO, Debian people don't ship and, or recommend vanilla; so need to
install Iceweasal and Icedove, which are the Debian variants of Firefox
and Thunderbird respectively.
Hope that helps,
Jai Hind,
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