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Mozilla and other unnecessary connections on start

@SuperRobinHood tested the latest build (LibreWolf-74.0-2.x86_64.AppImage) and found that it connects to Mozilla (and other alien domains) on starting up.

Here are some logs from their testing:

there's also the detectportal requests

maybe its intentional, I dunno

btw, I'm using the appimage if that matters

and now it requested this http://ciscobinary.openh264.org/openh264-linux64-2e1774ab6dc6c43debb0b5b628bdf122a391d521.zip for some reason

LibreWolf-74.0-2.x86_64.AppImage thats my version

also, Librewolf makes a new profile every time I run it

GET

https://accounts.firefox.com/metrics-flow?utm_source=activity-stream&utm_campaign=firstrun-release&utm_medium=referral&entrypoint=activity-stream-firstrun&form_type=email&utm_term=trailhead-cards-supercharge

HTTP/1.1

some of those might come from the new tab page, since I DID visit it

however, I did not go to any site

I see. I assume the js and images must've been from the newtab

so Librewolf also downloads the lists for tracking protection

for example GET

https://tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net/ads-track-digest256/1582072557

or GET

https://tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net/base-cryptomining-track-digest256/1559142673

and many many others

Edited by Shreyas Minocha