firefox is not unix, it is something horrible

One thing I saw with firefox, it's in a SELKS dedicated machine that watch my network. The configuration is such that SELKS log also its own packets.

When I used firefox (esr IIRC) in the SELKS machine itself (it's installed by default) to monitor alerts & logs, I saw dns requests and packets sent to brands sites like Adidas, Amazon, Temu and so on.

I then installed chromium to do this job and never saw anymore these kinds of requests.

Is firefox-esr somewhat an adware?
 
Never gone outside, just connected to internal servers on SELKS.

Firefox, since, has been not used anymore. Or just as test, to see if something is going wrong in chromium.

Just set an IDS, watch firefox, and then you'll can tell me, I've dreamed.
 
Emrion said:
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When I used firefox (esr IIRC) in the SELKS machine itself (it's installed by default) to monitor alerts & logs, I saw dns requests and packets sent to brands sites like Adidas, Amazon, Temu and so on.

I then installed chromium to do this job and never saw anymore these kinds of requests.

Is firefox-esr somewhat an adware?
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firefox in its default config presents you some sponsored links which are easy to disable. I would definitely NOT choose chromium over firefox if privacy is important.
 
There are some chromium derivatives for privacy. But i dont know details.
iridium & ungoogled-chromium does not exist as package here. Meaning "beta".
 
Alain De Vos said:
There are some chromium derivatives for privacy. But i dont know details.
iridium & ungoogled-chromium does not exist as package here. Meaning "beta".
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there is a meager browser developed by KDE called "falkon" that uses blink, the web-engine of chrome.

I do not know how secure it is ...
 
rootbert said:
firefox in its default config presents you some sponsored links which are easy to disable. I would definitely NOT choose chromium over firefox if privacy is important.
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Never seen strange requests/connections with default config on chromium.

What about a software you need to config to avoid ads?
I left firefox and it's for a long time
 
I'm gonna plug one of my all-time favourite pieces of software again. Just because I think the guys who wrote it did such a great job; still being maintained too, hopefully. This one doesn't require 1TB of virtual mem.
There's a freebsd package and port.
 
Virtual and resident memory very different... But i say falkon aks 1TB virtual memory that is crazy.
Real memory is 1GB ok,
ps -auxw | egrep falkon
Code: 
x          40461   90,3  1,8    1159072  607620  3  S+   02:14      0:03,96 falkon
x          64116   50,5  1,3 1438699564  432144  3  S+   02:14      0:01,62 QtWebEngineProcess: --type=renderer --webengine-schemes=falkon:sC;extension:sC;abp-resource:sCG;qrc:sV --disable-gpu-memory-buffer-vid
x          32724    0,0  0,0      14244    2620  2  S+   02:14      0:00,00 grep -E falkon
x@myfreebsd:/SSD/home/x $
 
ok , i see 1TB virtual very ok. It's just administrative. So browser can run in its private sandbox. A 64-bit system has biljons of addresses. :)
 
hruodr said:
there is a meager browser developed by KDE called "falkon" that uses blink, the web-engine of chrome.

I do not know how secure it is ...
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It's based on Qt webengine, which is chromium based. Never used it myself. While it apparently doesn't come with google chrome's surveiilance "features", as with any browser, it's probably best to research it in some depth. I have seen a lot of so called "private" browsers which are anything but.
 
firefox is my browser and everytime I test other I end going back to firefox.
it just works
there's a lot in a website, from scripts, images, css
then there're ajax calls for dynamic rendering etc
there're cookies and session management
this is only for rendering purposes

then on top of all that browsers implement security each one in it's own way
I can't imagine a very light browser without taking the risk of not implementing all the security layers most browsers have.
 
Some love for firefox. Just discovered some newish features that can do some tasks, pdf, inserting an image, my signature.
Mostly pdf viewers for the gui in do not offer this feature.Then discovered Apache-Openoffice Draw can do some tasks with pdf's.

Firefox, cross platform, like the old days when Netscape/Mozilla created support for Linux, made the switch from Windows possible.
 
Emrion said:
When I used firefox (esr IIRC) in the SELKS machine itself (it's installed by default) to monitor alerts & logs, I saw dns requests and packets sent to brands sites like Adidas, Amazon, Temu and so on.
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Do you have ublock origin or other ad blocker?
Those connections might originate from ads on some site that was running in a tab.
 
Zare said:
Do you have ublock origin or other ad blocker?
Those connections might originate from ads on some site that was running in a tab.
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As I said, I just used firefox to connect to the local webUI of SELKS (cirrus). Yesterday, I checked anew this behaviour and saw the same. Note that it seems different with the latest version of firefox (not esr) on FreeBSD. I didn't see the same requests, but some others that seem suspect. I didn't have time to dig.
 
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