Re: Does Firefox auto link to Google?
- From: Sam Coley <sgcxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:49:36 +0000
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:57:13 +0530, Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman wrote:
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.
Debian Sarge 3.1 updated from my personal local mirror about a month ago.
Firefox 2.0.0.1
Downloaded from getfirefox.com (on another machine, obviously), then
unzipped/untarred on mine and run from a folder under my home folder. No
install required, just make an icon link to the firefox bin.
Sam Coley
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