[gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[Shaochun Wang]

Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.

Any suggestion?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[Uwe Thiem]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
> www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.

Could it be you made it its startup page?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[felix]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
> > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.
> 
> Could it be you made it its startup page?

When I emerge a new version of firefox, it always loads that page the
first time it runs; it annoys me too.  But it only happens to me the
first start after a new build.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 29 January 2008, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
> > > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.
> >
> > Could it be you made it its startup page?
>
> When I emerge a new version of firefox, it always loads that page the
> first time it runs; it annoys me too.  But it only happens to me the
> first start after a new build.

It used to be the case that FF would search in advance for the Google or 
whichever search engine of choice you have selected (on the top RH search 
window) by prefetching some relevant pages.  Could this have something to do 
with your case?  Other than that my guess is that you have setup Gentoo in 
some place within FF, or one of its extensions and it loads, or prefetches 
the page in question.  A search through its config might help.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

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On January 29, 2008, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, felix@crowfix.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:31:19PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Shaochun Wang wrote:
> > > > Currently, I find that firefox always try to a dns query for
> > > > www.gentoo.org when it starts. I don't know the reason.
> > >
> > > Could it be you made it its startup page?
> >
> > When I emerge a new version of firefox, it always loads that page the
> > first time it runs; it annoys me too.  But it only happens to me the
> > first start after a new build.
>
> It used to be the case that FF would search in advance for the Google or
> whichever search engine of choice you have selected (on the top RH search
> window) by prefetching some relevant pages.  Could this have something to
> do with your case?  Other than that my guess is that you have setup Gentoo
> in some place within FF, or one of its extensions and it loads, or
> prefetches the page in question.  A search through its config might help.

I had impression that FF does checks of pages in your Bookmarks every once in 
a while which includes updating icon etc. Could that be it? Snoop on the wire 
to see what does it fetch (sorry, I don't have head of this thread so I don't 
know if you've done this already).

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[gentoo-user] Re: Why does firefox always do DNS query for www.gentoo.org?

[»Q«]

"Dmitry S. Makovey" <dmitry@athabascau.ca> wrote:

> I had impression that FF does checks of pages in your Bookmarks every
> once in a while which includes updating icon etc. Could that be it?
> Snoop on the wire to see what does it fetch (sorry, I don't have head
> of this thread so I don't know if you've done this already).

It doesn't automatically check normal bookmarks, but it does check all
live bookmarks at startup and periodically after that.  Having a live
bookmark to one of Gentoo's newsfeeds would cause the DNS lookups.

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