Browser start up operations

Ever wondered what a browser does on first start up. Who does it contact and what is it downloading.

Opera is interesting

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The cofounder of Mozilla commented in the Opera thread. Pretty small world out there.

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Thanks, I didn’t realise how much my beloved FireFox was dialling up it’s old pal Google…

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I did my tests with opera and brave already configured and ready to use … communication from the start and leaving without touch for a few minutes.


And firefox … Yes I am aware that these are only ip connections and not the exact data they send.


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It is very interesting the amount of background process that happens. Edge is particularly chatty to all kinds of services.

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Time for guerrilla war …
Block everything and allow only the domains we visit. :crazy_face:

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