R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all,

I've recently installed FF 52 (my older FF 16 didn't have the demanded
encryption levels anymore, and I saw no way to upgrade them), and have a
number problems with it. One of them is that it is a blabbermouth, and I
can't seem to be able to completely shut it up.

First point in case: "location.services.mozilla.com"

Even though I've set, in "about:config" the entry "geo.enabled" to False and
I cannot find any other settings for it, it *still* (tries to) connect to
it.

Second point in case: "tiles.services.mozilla.com"

For this I've even set all the "browser.newtabpage" booleans to false, and
it *still* (tries to) connect to it.

Does anyone have any idea how to kill this "connect to the mothership"
behaviour ?


The preferred solution would be that *all* the "phoning home" is set to Off,
after which I than can switch the settings/services I think I need to On
(and wil get informed that that will need some "phoning home").

A super-duper cherry-on-top would be that these settings (somehow) become
default, so that when I create another profile I do not need to go thru the
whole dance again.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

P.s.
FF 52 seems to be a slow beast in comparision to FF 16. Both in starting up
(even after the first time of the day) as well as in "inspect element".
Anything I can do about either ?



OK, how about this. Hard to believe this is the right control.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/disab...ation-browsers

"Click on Settings and press the Privacy tab. Here under Tracking,
check the Tell websites I do not want to be tracked check-box."

Good luck - beats building from source.

*******

With regard to speeding up your new browser,
you could test with a new video card :-/
Disabling hardware acceleration, just makes the
CPU work harder, so you should not be able to
beat a speed problem by doing that.

That's the problem with compositing at 60FPS and
relying on the video card. The user better have
a shiny fresh new video card. The chances of
us getting a buzzword compliant video card with
the right hardware interface on it now, are just
about zero. NVidia no longer even provides 32 bit
drivers, let alone new WinXP drivers. NVidia now
is 64-bit.

*******

"In Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, and check under
"Graphics", it should say "GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1", i.e.
one of one browser windows is using HW acceleration. If it says
"0/1", then you probably have compatibility problems (GPU driver
issues that would lead to security holes or crashes, mostly),
and it won't matter whether you enable acceleration or not."

Dunno which version of Firefox that applies to.

HTH,
Paul