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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
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 ? |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
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 ? There appears to be a build time option. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063739 "Fedora Firefox RPM are build using --disable-necko-wifi , which means geolocation is disabled." There's a single mozconfig file in the build directory which you can set as required. For example, it can support debug or release builds. The debug build would have .pdb symbol files for debugging purposes in Windows. It's assumed the build recipe still uses the compiler and linker from a Visual Studio install. (VS makes .pdb and works with WinDBG, while gcc tool flow makes files that work with gdb, never the twain shall meet). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/..._Build_Options And using the disable-necko-wifi then shows up in about: URI "And, having to use it explicitely means it will show up in about:buildconfig" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653902 "necko wifi uses the system services to identify the MAC address of nearby wifi access points. This is used to provide opt-in geolocation services to the web." Building used to be easy, in that the downloadable tarball was pretty well ready to go. The last time, yeah, I got a tarball, but then I had to clone a mercurial (HG) tree of some sort, because stuff was missing from the tarball and it was never going to work. ******* In the example here, you can run a localhost and fake your own location. The South Pole is popular this time of year. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...tting#24937564 ******* You can shop here for a tarball, and at least have source to read. And don't expect "geo.enabled" to pop up if you run grep/findstring either. Again, that would be too convenient. We can't have you reading the source, now can we. 52.9.0esr is the last ESR I see in the list. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/fire...9.0esr/source/ File firefox-52.9.0esr.bundle 988M 25-Jun-2018 08:55 File firefox-52.9.0esr.source.tar.xz 204M 25-Jun-2018 08:55 And if you get the idea into your head, of "fixing" all the line endings so Windows text editors work properly, don't do that to the tree you will be building from. There is *one* source file, that will throw a compile time error, and no amount of fiddling with it, would tame the bug. It was probably a bug in the compiler, but I couldn't figure out how a line ending change (on hundreds of thousands of other files), wasn't doing something similar. I had a script that attempted to change the line endings on around 50000 files or so, and just one file of those select few, became unhappy. Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
Paul,
There appears to be a build time option. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063739 "Fedora Firefox RPM are build using --disable-necko-wifi , which means geolocation is disabled." Geolocation is just one of the problems, and not even the most obnoxious one either (they *promissed* they would first ask me before providing it to the website that asks for it :-) ). I also mentioned "tiles.services.mozilla.com", and I thought I got rid of "shavar.services.mozilla.com", but it popped up again. And although I think I can use that sourcefile (I can use it to try to figure out how an SSL connection verifies the certificate (SSL_AuthCertificateHook) - something I've been unable to find), I'm not at all sure if I want to build a full environment just to recompile FF (with one feature feature less). I'm not even sure if I can still find a compiler which would work on XPsp3 and be able to handle that source ... In the example here, you can run a localhost and fake your own location. Yup, I found a similar article too. And although somewhat funny, it would do me no good: I'm running my browser with JS disabled - which means a website would not be able to execute the request anyway. :-) You can shop here for a tarball, and at least have source to read And that can never hurt. Especially not when I still have something to figure out. So thanks. By the way, what is that "firefox-52.9.0esr.bundle" supposed to be ? A bundle of something, but it dosn't say what (and I do not really want to download a gig only to throw it away 5 seconds later ...) And if you get the idea into your head, of "fixing" all the line endings so Windows text editors work properly, ... which is something I normally do. Way-back-when (in DOS times) I wrote a small program for it I'm stil using (there might be better/easier programs for it, but that one is mine :-) ) Regards, Rudy Wieser P.s. Currently I'm blocking the domains another way, so they do not get out. But it irks me to no end that, as far as I'm concerned, FF misbehaves this way. |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
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 |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
R.Wieser wrote:
Hello all, I've recently installed FF 52 The .bundle file contains references to Mercurial Hg and 7ZIP cannot take the file apart further. The internal construction is reminiscent of tar. You only need to download the .bundle, if following a build recipe. Unpacking the .bundle, gives you a Mercurial build tree with maybe clang or rust or somesuch. A machine with 32GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS, is a good candidate for making a 32-bit version of modern Firefox :-/ I had one build of Firefox, a while back, that just barely fit in 3GB of working RAM during the link stage. And you just know that's no longer true. The linking stage has to be even bigger now. Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
Paul,
OK, how about this. Hard to believe this is the right control. Than thats two of us. When I go to that setting it says "Firefox will send a signal that you don't want to be tracked whenever Tracking Protection is on". The whole point is that I want *less* blabbering, not more. :-) With regard to speeding up your new browser, you could test with a new video card :-/ Lolz. Thats not going to happen on old hardware running XP I'm afraid. I'm not even sure if a "new" videocard for my hardware does still exist. "In Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, and check under "Graphics", it should say "GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1", I can't find such a line, but I noticed something which could explain some of the slowness (though I have little problems with its overall performance) "unavailable by default: Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing" Never knew that XPsp3 supported D3D 11 ... Dumb question maybe, but do you have any idea if I can maybe downgrade the browser a bit but still have the newer encryptions supported ? I sought for a feature list once (in regard to supported encryptions), but have never been able to find one. Regards (and thank you) Rudy Wieser |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
Paul,
A machine with 32GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS, is a good candidate for making a 32-bit version of modern Firefox :-/ :-p That means that even if I wanted and would know how to I would not be able to make it work. My beefiest machine has got just 4 GB of memory. Yep, running XP. Regards, Rudy Wieser |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 22:22:03 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote: Paul, A machine with 32GB of RAM and a 64-bit OS, is a good candidate for making a 32-bit version of modern Firefox :-/ :-p That means that even if I wanted and would know how to I would not be able to make it work. My beefiest machine has got just 4 GB of memory. Yep, running XP. Try Palemoon Portable. Last build for XP is here. Still handles most certificates/encryption. You can always delete the folder if it's not what you want. Install version is he Runs fine on 1GB RAM. 4GB should be an overkill. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
R.Wieser wrote:
Paul, OK, how about this. Hard to believe this is the right control. Than thats two of us. When I go to that setting it says "Firefox will send a signal that you don't want to be tracked whenever Tracking Protection is on". The whole point is that I want *less* blabbering, not more. :-) With regard to speeding up your new browser, you could test with a new video card :-/ Lolz. Thats not going to happen on old hardware running XP I'm afraid. I'm not even sure if a "new" videocard for my hardware does still exist. "In Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, and check under "Graphics", it should say "GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1", I can't find such a line, but I noticed something which could explain some of the slowness (though I have little problems with its overall performance) "unavailable by default: Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing" Never knew that XPsp3 supported D3D 11 ... Dumb question maybe, but do you have any idea if I can maybe downgrade the browser a bit but still have the newer encryptions supported ? I sought for a feature list once (in regard to supported encryptions), but have never been able to find one. Regards (and thank you) Rudy Wieser Direct2D has existed for a good while. Compositing requires 128MB of RAM, on a typical platform. My Macintosh is the first hardware here, with a compositing layer buttered on top. And the same minimum requirement might still be enough. The platform there had a 128MB minimum too. It was based on an estimate of how many panes might reasonably be opened at once, then sorted in Z buffer order and presented in a final representation. The question would be, whether actual D3D 11 constructs are #included or it's just the bollox of the support files. Like, maybe the version of Visual Studio, when called upon to offer graphics primitives, dredged that up. I think there might even be an option in Visual Studio to crank that down. Compositing in the CPU is a bad idea, as you can imagine. It certainly is in Linux VMs, where compiz is running. It sucks all the life out of the VM to do that. Um, good luck with that project... I guess :-) Browsers and old OSes - the war never ends. I often dreamed of moving the crypto suite from a modern FF to an older one, but what are the odds that is modular. Maybe I can find a Vegas bookie to give me odds. Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
In message , Paul
writes: [] "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 It says "GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 9" in "Version 27.0.1", for what it's worth (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf live your dash. ... On your tombstone, there's the date you're born and the date you die - and in between there's a dash. - a friend quoted by Dustin Hoffman in Radio Times, 5-11 January 2013 |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul writes: [] "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 It says "GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 9" in "Version 27.0.1", for what it's worth (-: So yours is working a treat. Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
Paul wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , Paul writes: [] "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 It says "GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 9" in "Version 27.0.1", for what it's worth (-: So yours is working a treat. Paul More info here, using some keywords from your returned results. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklistin...aphics_Drivers Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabledto False doesn't work)
R.Wieser wrote:
Paul, OK, how about this. Hard to believe this is the right control. Than thats two of us. When I go to that setting it says "Firefox will send a signal that you don't want to be tracked whenever Tracking Protection is on". The whole point is that I want *less* blabbering, not more. :-) With regard to speeding up your new browser, you could test with a new video card :-/ Lolz. Thats not going to happen on old hardware running XP I'm afraid. I'm not even sure if a "new" videocard for my hardware does still exist. "In Firefox, type about:support in the URL bar, and check under "Graphics", it should say "GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1", I can't find such a line, but I noticed something which could explain some of the slowness (though I have little problems with its overall performance) "unavailable by default: Direct2D requires Direct3D 11 compositing" Never knew that XPsp3 supported D3D 11 ... Dumb question maybe, but do you have any idea if I can maybe downgrade the browser a bit but still have the newer encryptions supported ? I sought for a feature list once (in regard to supported encryptions), but have never been able to find one. Regards (and thank you) Rudy Wieser There are supposed to be controls in about:config that affect D3D usage. The set of three is just about video playback, and the example is probably irrelevant for the majority of web content. I basically picked these up, while looking for the "right abbreviation" for them. I still cannot find any substantive and modern description of the dependencies. The "allow-d3d9-fallback" causes graphics artifacts or even crashing, and should be selected with care. You can always edit the setting later with a text editor, if the browser won't stay running long enough to switch it back. layers.allow-d3d9-fallback : true media.mediasource.webm.enabled : true media.hardware-video-decoding.enabled : false media.windows-media-foundation.allow-d3d11-dxva : false Paul |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
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 ? I'm using FF 60 on Windows 7, so Firefox has changed since then; however, I don't know if it has changed regarding its location services. For example, since version 55, HTTP-only (non-SSL sites) cannot access the Geolocation API in Firefox for geolocation. Did you check that you are not using a proxy with Firefox (or any web client)? Go to Options - General - Network Proxy and click Settings button. If set to "system settings", go to Control Panel - Internet Options - Connections tab - LAN settings. I also have geo.enabled = False. In TCP View (with the option disabled to show disconnected endpoints [awaiting a kill]), none of the firefox.exe processes are connecting to location.services.mozilla.com. Someone else mentioned the "do not track" option. All that does is send a *header* sent by your client to the server. All the header does is *ask* the site not to track you. All the option does is decide whether or not your client sends the DNT header to the server. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...TP/Headers/DNT Rare few sites honor that request. Asking the bad guys not to be bad is stupid. To disable the "do not track" option also requires setting "tracking protection" (which uses the Disconnect.me blacklist) to Never. After disabling those two options and doing a fresh load of Firefox (in its safe mode to eliminate any extension connections), I still did not see firefox.exe connecting to location.services.mozilla.com. Since disabling the DNT and tracking options didn't get a connection to location.services.mozilla.com Did you go into options - Security & Privacy - Permissions and check that the whitelist of sites for Location was empty? I don't know if the global geo.enabled option overrides all per-site preferences you already saved. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ctlocale=en-US If you have a 3rd party firewall, you can rein in unruly apps making connections to where you don't want. Some will prompt when a process tries to make an outbound connection and let you decide if and when to allow the connection(s). There are URL filters, too. I use Avast (free) and it has a URL filter option; however, since I don't see firefox.exe making connections to location.services.mozilla.com with geo.enabled = False, I don't need to add a URL filter that won't fire. Another option is to add a redirection to localhost (127.0.0.0) or 0.0.0.0 in the hosts file for location.services.mozilla.com hostname. Presumably you are loading Firefox to a blank page, not to some site. If so, have you worked your way through Mozilla's article on how to stop Firefox from making automatic connections? See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...ic-connections Link Prefetch This is disabled in my instance of Firefox by installing the uBlock Origin extension. Prefetching is considered a workaround to ad blocking because resources will get fetched at domains you intended to block using an ad blocker. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_p...and_criticisms For me, network.prefetch-next = False. DNS Prefetch No need to prefetch domains listed in a page unless I choose to actually visit them. DNS prefetching will populate the DNS cache (in this case, the internal one in Firefox, not the DNS Client's cache in Windows) with tons of entries that are worthless since I won't be going to most of them. This is rude to the DNS providers in generating lookups on hosts the user never visits. I have netowrk.dns.disablePrefetch = True. Speculative pre-connections I deliberately do NOT use their new-tab page with thumbnails of places that I've previously visited. I will choose where to visit at the time I decide to go somewhere. I'll use my bookmarks, not a bunch of thumbnails that generate connections to those sites (which allows them to track if they are one of your favorites). I don't recall how I got the current Firefox to open a blank new tab page. In the past, Firefox presented a gear icon at the top right-side of the tab page that let me pick options, like blank. At some version, the gear icon disappeared. I think it's the browser.newtabpage.enabled = False that gets rid of Mozilla's stupidity in thinking I just must have a cutsy thumbnail of previously visited sites. That would obviate me having Firefox clearing everything on its exit since I don't want any history remembered, either. Live Bookmarks. Don't need them, don't want them, another privacy/tracking issue. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/live-bookmarks. Firefox Sync I do have this enabled but only bookmarks, passwords, add-ons, and options (so Firefox on different computers will have all this same info). I suspect that's the cause the firefox.exe connections to amazonaws and cloudfront. Snippets More **** shoved at you because, gee, Mozilla wants to pre-determine how you will use their web browser during searches. Geolocation for default search engine This is not about the geo.enabled option which determines if Firefox will respond to site requests for that info. This about which region to pick for your default search engine. The search sites already do that via IP geolocation, so it is superfluous in the client. Before I read this article, I had a URL specified for this option yet I was not seeing connections to location.services.mozilla.com. What's New page Shows after an update. Gee, like I really need to find out AFTER an update what got changed. They should be presenting a URL to let me see BEFORE the update what changed. This is worthless to me. I end up having to delve into Mozilla's site to find the release notes for the proposed new version before I install it. Diagnostics I have both options disabled under Options - Security & Privacy - Firefox Data Collection and Use section. I haven't tested but perhaps disabling these options resulted in toolkit.telemetry.enabled = False in my Firefox setup (although I thought this option was deprecated, so it didn't control anything). The datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled option is also disabled for me. You can also go to about:telemetry. If I go to about:crashes, nothing there because I don't upload any to them. In that same Options section is Deceptive Content protection. That is Mozilla using Google's SafeBrowser blacklist; however, it means Google gets to track to where you navigate to determine if the target is in their blacklist. I disabled that option. I already use uBlock Origin for blacklisting and uMatrix configured only to block 3rd party scripting. Although this section of the article talks about the heartbeat function, I'm not sure it's there anymore WebRTC I have media.peerconnection.enabled = False. However, that is a brute force method of controlling WebRTC (which can reveal your intranet IP address for tracking, different than your WAN-side IP address from your router or modem). This means Google Voice is useless in Firefox to me after they integrated with Hangouts which uses WebRTC for chatting. I have to use Google Chrome but with the WebRTC Leak Prevent extension which is more intelligent: ipleak.net still reports WebRTC is not leaking my intranet IP address but Google Voice will still work. Network Detection I disabled this as soon as I discovered it. It has Firefox attempt to connect to a Mozilla server to determine if the client is on the other side of a proxy aka captive portal, like those you see at resorts or cafes that require you to accept their TOS and perhaps login before you can use their Internet connection. Do a Google search on this and you find lots of admins reporting ills with this feature. For me, the network.captive-portal-service.enabled is set to False. I've tried many different settings trying to get firefox.exe to connect to location.services.mozilla.com but I don't see it in TCP View. I start Firefox with a blank home page (about:blank). In fact, I'm having a tough time to get connections to location.services.mozilla.com even with geo.enabled = True and after reloading Firefox. I even went to moviefone.com which uses geolocation. Turns out I had to disable both uBlock Origin and uMatrix to get that site run everything which included geolocation (probably because they use a script to use the geolocation API in Firefox). Then I got a prompt from Firefox asking me if I want to allow that site to use geolocation. Still saw not connection to location.services.mozilla.com, so either the connection is so quick that I cannot see it in TCP View or the site tested if geolocation was available in my client but I hadn't touched anything at the site that used geolocation. |
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FireFox 52 - how to disable location services (setting geo.enabled to False doesn't work)
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 18:41:32 +0200, 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 ? Some features just can't be disabled. In my browser, I hijaaked all unwanted URLs in settings from about:config, and make them invalid URLs. Just in case. e.g. https://tiles.services.mozilla.com/something Became: zhttps://tiles.services.mozilla.com/something As for the "location.services.mozilla.com" host name, the setting is not stored by default, so you'll have to add it manually (using "String" as the value type). The setting name is: browser.search.geoip.url In FF 57, it defaults to: https://location.services.mozilla.co...ZILLA_API_KEY% |
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