Re: [DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-02-02 Thread spiralofhope
On 2019-01-30 18:00, Hendrik Boom wrote: So I ask: Why should firefox need to access the net to look at the hard drive in the laptop. Don't several web browsers have a "feature" to check that every visited URL is "safe"? Maybe there's a bug where yours attempts to report your visited URL wh

Re: [DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-01-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/31/19 3:00 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have firefox up with a number of tabs. I shut wifi off on my Purism laptop by shutting off power to the radio. I start up a new tab by clicking on '+'. I ask to look at file:///home/hendrik by typing in the url bar. Nothing happens. It's frozen. I try f

Re: [DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-01-31 Thread hal
On 1/30/19 8:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: So I ask: Why should firefox need to access the net to look at the hard drive in the laptop. Using Devuan Ascii and the firefox it provides. All I can think of is Possibly a DNS query is waiting. Try running: tcpdump -nn -s0 -A -i wlan0_or_whatev

[DNG] suspicious firefox behaviour

2019-01-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have firefox up with a number of tabs. I shut wifi off on my Purism laptop by shutting off power to the radio. I start up a new tab by clicking on '+'. I ask to look at file:///home/hendrik by typing in the url bar. Nothing happens. It's frozen. I try file:/// Nothing happens either. I turn wifi