On 12/04/2015 10:58 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
Unfortunately I can not prevent Firefox entirely from connecting to apparently random web addresses once I open it; not even with the settings (malware, phishing) you have recommended me to try; not even with disabling all addons. Three servers that were contacted while/upon an about:blank invocation:
Are you sure those connections come from Firefox? Some IPs are Arch mirrors, it could be established by pacman or another Arch package manager.
nslookup 178.255.83.1 1.83.255.178.in-addr.arpa name = ocsp.comodoca.com.
This is an OCSP server, to check whether a X.509 (SSL/TLS) certificate has been revoked.
nslookup 194.187.168.99 nslookup 194.187.168.106
This range belongs to qwant, a search engine. It could simply be firefox looking to refresh the search engines information.
Annoying; isn`t it? I`d simply wish a more trustworthy OSS browser.
The thing is, you need to understand that a lot of connections are made to do very simple things like opening a single HTTPS page. DNS queries, check for browsers update, OCSP checks, CRLs fetching, anti-phishing / malwares blacklist updates, and so on.. I am not saying you should not be looking what is done by your browser, that's certainly good to keep an eye on it, but it will be time consuming :) Don't forget resource pre-fetching, bookmarks update.. I would advise you to use a fresh firefox profile to minimize false positives.