• Registered: 2008-07-08
  • Posts: 6

Topic: FireGPG 0.5 "phones home" upon startup, despite no_updates set true

I've set the following in prefs.js before the first restart of Firefox after installing FireGPG 0.5:
user_pref("extensions.firegpg.gpg_version", "0.5");
user_pref("extensions.firegpg.no_updates", true);

Despite this, I can se in netstat that getfiregpg.org is contacted just before the main Firefox window appears when I startup Firefox the first time, just like it does when update checking is not disabled. Should this happen?

The thing is that I'm building a LiveCD, so this will happen happen each time its restarted. This is further complicated by the fact that everything is routed through the Tor network. The delays imposed from that makes Firefox a reeeaaally slow starter as it seems the connection to getfiregpg.org needs to finish before the main windows of Firefox is shown. I had this exact problem in previous FireGPG versions (e.g. 0.4.8) when the two above things were not set in prefs.js. But these versions didn't have this problem -- the above settings did exactly what I wanted.

Debug output from Firefox (setting NSPR_LOG_MODULES=all:5) gave me this:
-1223883072[8a61eb8]: uri=http://getfiregpg.org/stable/statsxpcom.php?version=0.5&newstate=1&oldstate=0&plateforme=Linux%2Cx86-gcc3
so it seems it still trying to do an update.

Is there an explanation for this? What can I do to prevent it? Is it a bug?

  • From: Geneva
  • Registered: 2007-04-04
  • Posts: 1,040

Re: FireGPG 0.5 "phones home" upon startup, despite no_updates set true

Hello,

It's not a check for update, but a ping for stats about xpcom ( http://blog.getfiregpg.org/2008/07/07/about-stats/ ).

Currenty there no ways to prevent it (but it's will). As it's seem the xpcom is working, you can set extensions.firegpg.xpcom_state to 1 (the newstate value) and he will not send ping anymore beacause there is no changes wink

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  • Registered: 2008-07-08
  • Posts: 6

Re: FireGPG 0.5 "phones home" upon startup, despite no_updates set true

the_glu wrote:

As it's seem the xpcom is working, you can set extensions.firegpg.xpcom_state to 1 (the newstate value) and he will not send ping anymore beacause there is no changes wink

That worked perfectly! Thanks!