On Tuesday 22 September 2009, Grant wrote: > I have a remote system on which shorewall blocks all outgoing 80/443 > traffic except for 1 destination IP. I noticed that whenever someone > logs in to an xfce4 session on that system, I see a bunch of rejected > 80/443 requests from that system to various Google IPs from throughout > their session. Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for > some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to > access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone > know why this might be happening? > > - Grant
It may have something to do with the default search engine in FF's drop down search field. -- Regards, Mick
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