Comments on: Firefox is phoning home once a day

By: Privacy Concerned Person

Privacy Concerned Person — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:16:10 +0000

This is the sort of thing I would prefer to check manually, and I don’t appreciate Mozilla Corporation doing it automatically without asking me.

Does anyone know, if a proxy is enabled, is the real IP sent, or just the proxy IP? If it ignores the proxy settings, or sends the real IP in some other way, that would make it even scarier.

By: WinExtra » From the Pipeline – 6.26.08

WinExtra » From the Pipeline – 6.26.08 — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:03:03 +0000

[...] Firefox is phoning home once a day :: gHacks – I don’t even know what to say about this one. [...]

By: Blf

Blf — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:33:03 +0000

Where’s the objectivity? Windows phone home is bad and Firefox phone home is good just because it’s not Microsoft?

They are both equally bad.

By: andymurd

andymurd — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:21:20 +0000

The Vietnamese language pack was found to have a virus payload (see http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2008/05/07/compromised-file-in-vietnamese-language-pack-for-firefox-2/).

I guess the others have similar problems.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:26:20 +0000

Anyway, I presume disabling extensions.blocklist.enabled will prevent blocking listed plug-ins/add-ons, but not phoning home, is that correct?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:09:36 +0000

>The Mozilla team may block plugins and add-ons that are installed on your system using that option.

And this is somehow a good thing? :)