On January 29, 2008, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> > > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
> > > > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.
> > >
> > > Could it be you made it its startup page?
> >
> > When I emerge a new version of firefox, it always loads that page the
> > first time it runs; it annoys me too.  But it only happens to me the
> > first start after a new build.
>
> It used to be the case that FF would search in advance for the Google or
> whichever search engine of choice you have selected (on the top RH search
> window) by prefetching some relevant pages.  Could this have something to
> do with your case?  Other than that my guess is that you have setup Gentoo
> in some place within FF, or one of its extensions and it loads, or
> prefetches the page in question.  A search through its config might help.

I had impression that FF does checks of pages in your Bookmarks every once in 
a while which includes updating icon etc. Could that be it? Snoop on the wire 
to see what does it fetch (sorry, I don't have head of this thread so I don't 
know if you've done this already).

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Dmitry Makovey
Web Systems Administrator
Athabasca University
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