Re: Turning off extra Fedora-related traffic on Firefox?
Don Marti <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:46:57 -0700
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On 7/29/26 19:43, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 7/29/26 7:24 PM, Don Marti wrote:
>> I'm working on some privacy research, and logging what DNS lookups
>> get made when a browser visits a site.
>>
>> Right now, I have the following list for Firefox on Fedora. The one
>> site I'm visiting is blog.zgp.org which has no 3rd-party resources on
>> it. All the rest of the DNS lookups are the browser and/or Fedora.
...
>>
>> Most of that looks like it would be from the default Fedora start
>> page or new tab page. Make sure you have those turned off or set to
>> about:blank. I don't know what the hostnames in parentheses are
>> supposed to indicate.
>
I have |browser.newtabpage.enabled |and browser.newtab.preload both set
to false. Several Fedora-related DNS lookups still happening.
(Parentheses in that script output mean the lookup returned a CNAME.)
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<p>On 7/29/26 19:43, Samuel Sieb wrote:</p>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:[email protected]">On
7/29/26 7:24 PM, Don Marti wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">I'm working on some privacy research, and
logging what DNS lookups get made when a browser visits a site.
<br>
<br>
Right now, I have the following list for Firefox on Fedora. The
one site I'm visiting is blog.zgp.org which has no 3rd-party
resources on it. All the rest of the DNS lookups are the browser
and/or Fedora.
<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>...</p>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:[email protected]">
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
Most of that looks like it would be from the default Fedora
start page or new tab page. Make sure you have those turned off
or set to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="about:blank">about:blank</a>. I don't know what the hostnames in
parentheses are supposed to indicate.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
</blockquote>
<p>I have <code class="code-inner"><span class="nt">browser.newtabpage.enabled </span></code>and
browser.newtab.preload both set to false. Several Fedora-related
DNS lookups still happening. (Parentheses in that script output
mean the lookup returned a CNAME.)</p>
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