> You are missing the point of the question. I did not miss *the* point. There were two points: the specific case of Palemoon and the general case. My first paragraph addressed the former, while my second paragraph addressed the latter. You then acted as if focusing on Palemoon in the first paragraph indicated that I had "missed" the general point, ignoring the content of my second paragraph. You then reiterated the general point in more detail but not in a way that refutes my second paragraph. That does not mean I am right, but it does indicate that you don't have a better response, or else you would not have resorted to evasion. I have tried to be patient with these tactics, and the result is a sprawling mess of a thread in which the very valuable information you have provided is completely buried in off-topic discussion. They are also the reason Mozilla closed your bug report prematurely; it wasn't some conspiracy to silence you, just impatience. I apologize for being blunt, but being subtle has not helped keep the conversation on track.
This is irrelevant to the important hard work you have put into investigating these browsers. If you aren't too pissed at me at this point, I'd like to keep discussing that with you. If you would like to discuss whether or not software freedom is important, a new thread in the troll lounge would be the appropriate place. This thread will go off the rails again if we discuss anything other than web browsers here. Can you remind me of whether Palemoon's default about:config prevented background connections, or if you had to additionally configure it yourself? (You might have already answered this, but I will go insane if I try to dig through this thread searching for the message.) Either way, it sounds like this Firefox derivative is the easiest you've found for which to disable automatic connections. While I am unwilling to use Palemoon for my computing because it is proprietary (though I respect your right to decide differently) I will download it to compare its about:config to that of Firefox after following the broken documentation page. Focusing on the differences will narrow down the number of value changes to try in order to disable all automatic connections.
