On 04/30/2014 09:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Is anyone running the Gnome weather extension? I have disabled it and > my system is running better. Or rather FIrefox is working 'right' again. > > This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather > service, and you can't change this. I had noticed that many places I > was going to in Firefox took a long time to reply. It was as if Firefox > was hanging, and other Firefox windows were not responding either. > > I finally fired up wireshark and I was seeing that requests for things > like apis.google.com (or some such) was being routed through a .no site > (by reverse lookup on IP address). Perhaps this extension was altering > Firefox's proxy settings. > > I don't have the time or resources to do a serious review, but I am > pointing this out and perhaps others may have noticed this as well. Or > are suffering and not knowing it. This may be accidental or really > actually malicious; just don't know. > > I just fired up Wireshark and set it to monitor all HTTP traffic from my machine to any address. I'm not seeing anything untoward with respect to the Weather extension, although I wonder if it's necessary for it to check in every 15 seconds. FWIW, I'm not using any extensions from the repo; I've installed them all directly from the Gnome extensions site.
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