Welcome a new Fennec F-Droid

@PorFin
I mean the code for those trackers is empty, and does absolutely nothing.

There are other requests the browser makes

  • tracking protection lists
  • safebrowsing lists
  • search engine update lists
  • add-on lists
  • blocked add-on lists
  • update checking
  • feedback reporting
  • release notes
  • mozilla news snippets
  • pocket integration
  • error reporting
  • crash reporting
  • wifi location lookup
  • network connectivity checks
  • firefox sync
  • etc.

Hosts for blocking at least some of these requests. If anyone has more please consider expanding or updating this.

#Mozilla
0.0.0.0 shavar.prod.mozaws.net
0.0.0.0 shavar.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 affiliates-cdn.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 crash-stats.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 data.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 detectportal.firefox.com
0.0.0.0 fhr.cdn.mozilla.net
0.0.0.0 fhr.cdn.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 geo.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 hang-reports.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 hardware.metrics.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 location.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 metrics.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 push.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 reporter.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 snippets.cdn.mozilla.net
0.0.0.0 snippets.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 stun.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 telemetry-experiment.cdn.mozilla.net
0.0.0.0 telemetry.mozilla.org
0.0.0.0 testpilot.mozillalabs.com
0.0.0.0 tiles.cdn.mozilla.net
0.0.0.0 tiles.services.mozilla.com
0.0.0.0 tracking.services.mozilla.com

These are contacted by Fennec today or generally by the upstream Firefox?

Yes. Lol. See Anti-features. :smiley:

I think only “shavar…” (safebrowsing) is automatically contacted by Fennec but I don’t know how it behaves under certain conditions.

Initial start of Fennec F-Droid is:

shavar.services.mozilla.com.
firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com.
tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net.
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net.
services.addons.mozilla.org.
addons.cdn.mozilla.net.

Initial start of Firefox is:

location.services.mozilla.com.
firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com.
shavar.services.mozilla.com.
tracking-protection.cdn.mozilla.net.
content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net.
www.google.com.
services.addons.mozilla.org.
addons.cdn.mozilla.net.

Antifeatures are something, actual behaviour might differ.

Ooops https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2021-20/

Vulnerabilities are found every month, what made you post about them this time? :slight_smile:

BTW I pushed the 81.1.3 update today: Update Fennec F-Droid to 88.1.3 (2292428b) · Commits · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

:slight_smile: looked more of interest

@Morgoth @semevos and others: I’m sorry about the late reaction to your requests. as you asked, I’ve updated the addonliberator collection with the following addons:

Redirect AMP to HTML
Privacy Redirect
Dark Reader
Save as PDF
Save PDF

viewing the page source was already possible via View Page Source (Mobile).

@relan are you looking after Fennec, please?

@relan are you looking after Fennec, please?

What’s up?

Nothing up, I just noticed that there is a fork of fennecbuild and was curious.

I know that Tad maintains a fork of fennecbuild for Mull. No idea about others, I don’t track who and how uses my code, but they are welcome to do this of course :slight_smile:

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Hi, I’m using Mull (the fork with arkenfox added). I noticed that it is impossible to set new tab to blank. I tried looking at secret settings as explained in a post above but can only see “Use new Tabs Tray” and “Use third party CA certificates”. Changing about:config settings or trying extensions also appears to not do anything. Is this a Mull-specific issue or is it also the case on Fennec?
EDIT: My current method is simply removing all pinned tabs, but data might still be sent and I’m not sure if these tabs will return.

@ziproot

I noticed that it is impossible to set new tab to blank.

Tabs are about:newtab, not about:blank.
I don’t think you can change it.
This is a Fenix thing afaik.

But when I visit about:newtab, it says “invalid address”.

I have blank new tabs, except for “Mull” at upper left and Private Tabs toggle at upper right.

Maybe it is from Settings, Customize, Show most visited sites: Off

That is what I have, too.