On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 2:36 PM Claus Assmann <openbsd+po...@esmtp.org> wrote: > > Can someone point in me in the right direction how to prevent firefox > from making lots of unwanted network connections, e.g., to > amazonaws.com > cloudfront.net > even if I didn't open any website yet? > > I disabled "pingsender" and all "telemetry" options I could find, > and in OpenBSD 6.5 I simply used tcpdrop on all web connections a > bit after startup, but now I updated to OpenBSD 6.6 and those > connections come back again and again even if just let it "sit" > idle. > > I strongly prefer that firefox only makes network connections which > I initiated instead of possibly giving away my data to some places... >
Mozilla has a rather long list of steps to perform should you as a user be concerned about privacy: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections If you want to restrict FireFox as much as possible, it may be worthwhile to maintain your own user.js file using the following repository as a reference: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js I've not confirmed that what I've proposed will give you the desired effect, but good luck.
