Feature #5381

Check iceweasel search engines update settings and behaviour

Added by Tails 2013-07-18 07:39:54 . Updated 2014-10-31 17:17:53 .

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Resolved
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Normal
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Test
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0
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Browser
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Description

Downloading icons?

I suspect that’s right.

browser.chrome.site_icons is already set to false anyway, as it should be.

Still happening in 0.16 and the 0.17 pre-release.

Setting browser.chrome.site_icons, browser.chrome.favicons and browser.chrome.image_icons.max_size in user.js instead of the site-wide iceweasel.js does not solve the problem.

It seems Iceweasel only connects to www.google.com and en.wikipedia.org, that are (coincidence?) the only two engines without an icon in the search bar at startup time. A few seconds later, they get their icon, presumably downloaded from the Internet.

Next thing to do: test if TBB has the same issue.

See Iceweasel contacts all search providers on startup.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #5706: Harmonize our Tor Browser config with TBB Resolved

History

#1 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 10:29:05

  • Subject changed from check iceweasel search engines update settings and behaviour to Check iceweasel search engines update settings and behaviour
  • Description updated
  • Category set to 176
  • Starter set to No

#2 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-09 10:32:30

  • blocks Feature #5706: Harmonize our Tor Browser config with TBB added

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-21 14:20:05

  • blocked by deleted (Feature #5706: Harmonize our Tor Browser config with TBB)

#4 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-21 14:20:13

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-21 15:37:57

While browser fingerprinting should be taken into account while working on this, this task is not really a subtask of Feature #5706: it’s useful to work on in itself.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-21 15:38:16

  • related to Feature #5706: Harmonize our Tor Browser config with TBB added

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2014-10-31 17:17:53

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved

I can’t see these connections anymore in Tails 1.2. Looks like the migration to FF31/TBB has fixed it.