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[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 31 2007 14:50, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
>>>> On 31-01-2007 at 15:26, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>> Hi list.
>> 
>> Just when I wanted to debug a web problem, I saw tcpdump 
>> showing Firefox making silent requests to Google. (wtf at this
>> point!)
>> To reproduce: Open a random webpage (preferably one that does not 
>> reference external content, e.g. http://jengelh.hopto.org/ ; local 
>> files don't trigger it)
>
>Maybe you could have a look at this site:
>http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/
>The link it requested there is the Web Forgery Protection.

Ah thanks for the info.

(And I don't run Google Toolbar, it phones home even more often and
for modem users, I have seen it congesting their line.)


Jan
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