[GLLUG] tcpdump

Marr wm33 at att.net
Sat Aug 13 23:54:35 EDT 2016


On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:46:46 -0400
Marr <wm33 at att.net> wrote:

> Slackware 14.2's Firefox spawns 3 (IIRC) tabs that have some useless,
> slow-to-load content.  If you can get past that, I can't imagine what
> Firefox would be sending.  Oh, wait!  I just remembered that I went to
> "Preferences", "Advanced", (via GUI or direct URL
> 'about:preferences#advanced') then "Data Choices" and disabled the
> "Enable Firefox Health Report".  Can you get that far with Firefox or
> is it too bogged down to even do that?

(Replying to myself here...)

Or, fire up Firefox offline, go to the 'about:config' page and find
and update the setting that way.  It appears to be this:

   datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled;false

Bill


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