How can I stop firefox from connecting to google at startup. (lemmy.today)

submitted 2 months ago by blaggle42@lemmy.today 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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[-] bazzett@lemmy.world 24 points 2 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.

[-] blaggle42@lemmy.today 4 points 2 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!

[-] blaggle42@lemmy.today 1 points 2 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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