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Sunday, August 16, 2015

How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections


Some people are concerned about the connections Firefox makes to the Internet, especially when those connections are made for no apparent reason (see Mozilla's Firefox Browser Privacy Notice for additional information). This article explains various reasons why Firefox may make a connection to the Internet and how you can stop it from doing so, if you wish.

 

Table of Contents

  • Automatic updates and Security
    • Auto-update checking
    • Blocklist updating
    • Anti-phishing list updating
    • Anti-malware list updating
    • Secure website certificates
  • Prefetching
    • Link prefetching
    • DNS prefetching
    • Speculative pre-connections
    • Add-on list prefetching
  • User-invoked content
    • Home page loading
    • Extensions
    • Live Bookmarks updating
    • Downloads restarted
    • Search plugin icon loading
    • Firefox Sync
    • Firefox Hello
  • Mozilla content
    • Tiles
    • Snippets
    • Geolocation for default search engine
    • "What's new" page
    • Add-on metadata updating
  • Diagnostics
  • Media capabilities
    • OpenH264 codec
    • WebRTC
    • Send Video To Device
  • Malware
  • Loopback connection

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