Waterfox Third Generation firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com

Created on 28 Nov 2020 · 6Comments · Source: MrAlex94/Waterfox

Water Third Generation = phones home to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com everytime you start the browser.

You can disable this in firefox, editting the onma.ja file. This is not possible with Waterfox, i can not find the setting anywhere.

Waterfox Classic - does not make the connection everytime you start up.

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schoolprivacy

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This isn't the only one, there's a bunch more, it's not fullproof as it sounded, perhaps these things are burried so deep that aren't exactly obvious.

I learned about Waterfox only a few weeks ago, I just wasn't looking before I guess, I kept tweaking Firefox on my own for many years, I kinda got fed up and wanted to build my own version, Waterfox fits this right on, but I wouldn't say perfectly. I'd remove cloud sync, as well as other components and make things even more strict because I just don't need it, most of these are gimmicks to me and lazy conveniences that only promotes a user expecting everything to be done for them, including custom defaults so I don't have to spend a whole freaking afternoon configuring about:config - Many configs are still the bad defaults in Waterfox, kinda disappointed a bit there.

altimumdelta on 8 Dec 2020

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Water Third Generation = phones home to firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com everytime you start the browser.

You can disable this in firefox, editting the onma.ja file. This is not possible with Waterfox, i can not find the setting anywhere.

Waterfox Classic - does not make the connection everytime you start up.

Are you sure it's gone?
In Waterfox Current there's a file "omni.ja" inside its installation folder (which can be opened by WinRar),
and inside I found a file "greprefs.js" and it had the setting firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com