[LINK] Firefox security issue

[David Lochrin]

On Wednesday 31 October 2007 15:37, Danny Yee wrote:
> This may not be Firefox updating itself, but rather updating 
> one of the installed Extensions/Add-ons.

That's a possibility, but I'd expect (hope?) that disabling updates disabled all updates since the option is not otherwise qualified.

I blocked dyna-addons.nslb.sj.mozilla.com (63.245.209.31) but then caught it connecting to kc-in-f91.google.com (216.239.51.91).

Typing "about:config" in the Firefox URL field brings up a very long list of configuration variables, far more than show in the normal "preferences" menus. Scrolling through them reveals quite a few hard-coded URLs, many of which involve Google, and this may have something to do with Google now being a major sponsor of Firefox and/or Mozilla - see the browser.safebrowsing.provider.* section for example.

These config variables can be edited, but maybe a simpler browser with fewer commercial ties is the answer - anyone for Konqueror ?  (:-)

David