As 'a courtesy' Firefox tells Google the site you paropose to visit, that way Google can check it for safety. We all trust Google implicitly, so there is nothing Orwellian about this.

Apparently the way to stop this is Edit -> Preferences -> Security tab -> then uncheck 'block reported attack sites', 'block reported web forgeries'.

(Apparently Mozilla gets most of its money from Google. Do not know if this is a good question but checking the web sites for us would seem to cost Google money - why would they pay Mozilla to do this if they did not have a sinister, ulterior motive?)

I use things like trafficlight, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir.../trafficlight/ , wonder if they cause the Google tracking type problem too.

/* Disable geolocation */
user_pref("geo.enabled", false);

/* Disable Google lookups */
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups", false);


/* Disable network prefetching/search engine suggest */
user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", false);

You aren't being paranoid enough.
Security and Privacy on the Internet - LinuxQuestions.org : https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...internet-3080/

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I'm also not being intelligent enough. What should I do with the code?

Rather than using about:config, create a file named user.js in your Firefox profile directory.

user.js overwrites pref.js.

User.js file - MozillaZine Knowledge Base - http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file

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Great thanks. Incidentally, slight typo, it should be not pref.js but prefs.js.