On 7/6/26 19:28, Tim wrote:
On Sun, 2026-06-07 at 10:10 +1000, [email protected] wrote:
I have a local HTML file with a list of links. When I open this page
in Firefox I see many log messages like this:
2026-06-07T09:46:58+10:00 named[1225250]: timed out resolving
'www.google.com/HTTPS/IN': 8.8.8.8#53
These seem to show up for any link that I pass the mouse over, even briefly.
Firefox is running in safe-mode (as a test) so no add-ons are involved.
My private named config nominates 8.8.8.8 as the forwarder.
I want to stop Firefox from doing this. Just do nothing when the mouse moves
across my page.
How do I stop Firefox making these requests? Not just stopping the timeout.
I can imagine a few scenarios...
You may have Firefox's Artificial Idiot features enabled, and it may be
trying to preview such links. I disabled all the AI stuff. I don't
know how much "safe mode" really disables.
All AI disabled here. Naturally.
That's an unusual named log entry (it's not just a domain name), though
if you had DNS over HTTPS enabled, I wouldn't expect a local resolver
to get any kind of query.
Even without plug-ins, Firefox has some content-checking features built
into it.
I use a proxy (privoxy) that block any Firefox/Mozilla connections when I
notice them.
I'd recommend going through its settings (the normal ones, for a
start). Then maybe some of the hidden from normal sight things in
about:config (search for prefetch in them, maybe search for preview,
too, perhaps disable some of them)
Done so. I still see some "timed out resolving" errors, and I assume that more
look-ups were done without error.
Maybe time, again, to tcpdump the modem interface and carefully check any
unexpected access. Not much fun.
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