> Another thought I had is to compare the about:config for Icecat and Tor
Browser and see if changing some of Icecat's values to match that of Tor
Browser can reduce background chatter.
I have been thinking the same (but only about Tor comparison). Additionally I
am planning to look at https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js
The big problem is that all this means many reboots - to test each individual
setting because when the chattering starts it seems to continue until I
reboot. In earlier tests I tried simply running 'systemctl restart
network.service' but after restarting the service the chattering continues.
So if anyone of you who knows more about Linux networking internals has an
idea how to restart only the network and not the whole machine, that would
save me a huge amount of time. Otherwise I would have to reboot like crazy.
Another thing which I was considering: filing a new bug report to Mozilla
hoping that they may consider it properly if it is not about telemetry (their
main argument). Or maybe we could ask them which about:config settings we
need to clean/disable in order to stop the chatter.
