On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 20:40:44, Mayayana
wrote:
"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

Not just browsers and extensions; a lot of software in general. Even
IrfanView (or its add-on package [which I always get at the same time],
I don't remember for sure, though I think it's the core) takes you to a
page showing what's new in the new edition. I don't mind that. (Don't
even mind if that visit _does_ collect some data about me, though I've
no reason to believe it does.)

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.

Does that mean it works with the old-style extensions that versions
after 5x (I can never remember whether it's 52 or 59 - one is the
extensions and one XP, IIRR) won't?

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