369626 - Add-ons makes internet connection without request for updates

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Add-ons makes an internet connection without request for updates

I have a dialup connection that is shared with other folks in the house. The Add-ons component is making a connection and causing a dialup before I've even logged onto my computer (I normally leave the computer in Hibernate mode between sessions).  This is what 'netstat' shows:

  TCP    oldhp:2539             dyna-addons.nslb.sj.mozilla.com:https  ESTABLISHED     2972
  [firefox.exe]

Add-ons shouldn't be making a connection without me clicking the Find Updates button.

This happens any time I have Firefox open when I hibernate the computer,
so that there is then a Firefox window(s) open when the computer comes out of
hibernation.

If this happens when there is someone else using the dialup it terminates
their connection.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bas van den Bosch]

see bug 423054 and bug 381065. The latter states:
Setting extensions.blocklist.enabled to false prevents Thunderbird from connecting daily (or so) to 63.245.209.31:443.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Confirming based on duplicates.

Comment 5

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

The connection is to daily retrieve a blocklist file (and check for addon updates if you haven't disabled that). This is to help stop add-ons from affecting the security and stability of Firefox. We're not going to stop doing that and as you can see there is a preference already to disable the behaviour, though I really wouldn't recommend it.

What is this bug looking for?

Comment 6

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

There doesn't appear to be anything to fix here. If there is some specific request like providing a UI for turning off the blocklist or something then please file a new bug against the preferences component.