"John Dulak" wrote

| It has been a long tome since I first installed MyPal but I don't recall
it
| doing anything nefarious when first run. I think it just went to some sort
of
| welcome or release notes page.

That's typical. Many browsers now try to do that.
And some extensions. So that may be it. Still, it's an
awfully lot of calling home, and the attempts when
extensions were loaded were all to the same IP, not
to those extension homepages. That's weird. So I
was wondering if other people know about it. Other
than that it's very promising; apparently an up-to-date
version of gecko without that crap and restrictions of
late-model Firefox.