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.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
    211·
    3 days 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.

    • CountVon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      3 days ago

      Yes, Google Safe Browsing is probably the cause. Anyone curious can read more about it here, but that traffic at browser startup is probably going to Google’s Safe Browsing API servers.

      • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I’ve disabled all of the safe browsing via about:config

        still talks to google. weird. also it still keeps the connection open either for re-use or, dunno.

    • blaggle42@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
      3·
      2 days 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.todayOPEnglish
        1·
        2 days 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.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      31·
      3 days ago
      $ sudo apt install librewolf
[sudo: authenticate] Password: 
Error: Unable to locate package librewolf
      • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        61·
        2 days ago

        [https://librewolf.net/installation/debian/]

        We have a repository for Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, etc.), with which you can easily install and update LibreWolf. To add it to your system and install LibreWolf, run the following commands one by one:

        sudo apt update && sudo apt install extrepo -y

        sudo extrepo enable librewolf && sudo extrepo update librewolf

        sudo apt update && sudo apt install librewolf -y

        • grue@lemmy.world
          214·
          2 days ago

          I don’t want to have to “taint” my distro install by adding a repo. I want it to be available from my distro’s official repo.

          • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
            7·
            2 days ago

            Nothing tainted about it. It’s actually one of the easiest ways to get a package you want/need. I appreciate anyone who maintains my precious librewolf package.

          • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
            6·
            2 days ago

            Adding a repo is not “tainting” an install. Adding a package to the official repo is not the responsibility of the devs but of Debian’s package maintainers.

              • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
                3·
                2 days ago

                The only relevant part in that link is this:

                Some third-party repositories might appear safe to use as they contain only packages that have no equivalent in Debian. However, there are no guarantees that any repository will not add more packages in future, leading to breakage.

                And you should be safe about this.

                As I was saying, the devs are not responsible for including the package to the official repo. You are owed nothing and have plenty of other options to install it.

              • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
                1·
                2 days ago

                As for your bottom line remember the contributors are working on it for free, they are not selling anything. So they are not running after more users. It’s good as it is, non technical people can use flatpack or AppImage and technical people can add a repo without issues.

                And someday someone could add it to the official repo, it could be you.

            • grue@lemmy.world
              21·
              2 days ago

              Of 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.

          • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 days ago

            You’re going to miss out on great software with that approach. Even for packages that have a Debian apt version, I find it much safer to get it from the maintainers official repos. Get the same version as the apt package if you must.

    • Hewert Hurggles@thelemmy.club
      1·
      2 days ago

      LibreWolf can’t be a convenient daily driver. Need tweaks and tweaking default settings may reduce privacy and security slightly.

      • bazzett@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yes, I’ve tried it multiple times, but, apart of the so-called “privacy features”, I can’t find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox. Well, I suppose that if you’re really paranoid, or hate every single decision Mozilla makes with the force of a thousand suns, then it can be appealing.

        • InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 days ago

          Thats because it is so close to Firefox to not even be distinct, but the privacy settings are useful anyway. I’ve used it as a daily driver for a long time and have not yet found it lacking.

        • Don_alForno@feddit.org
          1·
          2 days ago

          apart of the so-called “privacy features”, I can’t find a single reason to use it instead of regular Firefox.

          Because it’s supposed to be Firefox but private. That’s literally the only distinction.