History of How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Unreviewed   AliceWyman updated link to renamed article (minor)
Current M Mozinet http => https and 3 minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman Extensions: content unrelated to auto-updates moved; added back, edited "Contextual feature recommendations and other notifications" section (see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman Experiments or studies: corrected pref to app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled (see discussion)
Approved M typoSmashing Moved the "Extensions" section closer to "Auto-update checking", as it mentions it. Therefore, removed redundant text about disabling add-on update checking.
Unreviewed   typoSmashing Fixed typos. Regarding the section "Contextual feature recommendations", the pref "browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.feeds.asrouterfeed" no longer exists. Either needs to be updated or removed.
Approved M AliceWyman Home page loading (edits)
Unreviewed   Mozinet Updated 'Home page loading' section to match the current UI
Approved M AliceWyman updated links
Unreviewed   Mozinet minor edits in form
Approved M AliceWyman Deleted Snippets section (bug 1709984) and pre-fx70 content
Approved   Trevor Fixing broken link to Link Prefetching FAQ
Unreviewed   Bartz restoring content removed without explanation by Chris Ilias on Jan 23, 2021, 3:54:14 PM
Unreviewed   YD Section "Home page or new tab page loading" instead "Home page loading" + minor edits
Approved M Chris Ilias Moved "firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com" section to "Login Breach...", and removed keywords
Approved M Artist changed search word (connectivity instead of portal)
Approved MT Valentin Also mention network.connectivity-service.enabled pref - see bug 1680318
Unreviewed   ke5trel Update prefs for studies, geolocation and snippets.
Approved M gijs The casting support was removed from desktop a long time ago. Drop its mention from this support page for recent versions.
Approved M Michele Rodaro delinkified "firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com" title of the section
Approved M AliceWyman removed pre-fx68 content, fixed display for last revision
Approved M Bartz workaround for unsupported <nowiki> tag to disable automatic linking to "firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com" (thanks to michro on Matrix#sumo for the tip!)
Unreviewed   Bartz see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598562#c13
Approved M Joni fixed tags
Unreviewed   Joni fixed markup
Approved M Joni added new prefs
Approved M AliceWyman Diagnostics: new heartbeat pref for fx60
Approved M AliceWyman Linked to about:config and DRM articles, removed Firefox Health Report link and other outdated content
Approved M AliceWyman Tracking protection list updating, fixed {/for}
Approved M Mozinet As of version 64, Firefox no longer supports Live Bookmarks
Approved M AliceWyman a few small edits
Approved M Wesley Branton Updated information about disabling updates
Reviewed M Pj The Updating of Extensions/Plug-Ins Auto-to-Manual and That Flash Does Not Auto-Update.
Approved M jscher2000 - Support Volunteer Added a new section for captive portals
Approved   Imen Pane >> Panel
Approved M AliceWyman updated Diagnostics section for fx56 (see discussion)
Approved M Tonnes Data Choices link fix
Approved M Michele Rodaro Auto-update checking & Tracking protection list updating: Option labels changed in fx56
Approved M AliceWyman Auto-update checking and Secure website certificates updated for fx56
Approved M AliceWyman updated "Tracking protection list updating" section for fx56
Approved M AliceWyman updated "Anti-phishing" section for fx56, other edits
Approved M lebonvent Fixed the "anti-phishig, unwanted software, malware" point as per the article's discussion.
Approved M AliceWyman Send Video To Device: clarified that this feature is disabled by default (see discussion)
Approved M Joni removed references to Hello because of EOL
Reviewed M Lan Removed duplicate section about disabling add-on updates
Approved M Lan Purge <38 content, corrections
Approved M Joni hid Hello for < 49
Approved M philipp Update regarding Tiles
Approved M Francois Marier Application reputation is enabled on all platforms now
Unreviewed   Francois Marier Add instructions on how to disable tracking protection list updates
Approved M AliceWyman edit to philipp's revision to link "New Tab page" with "About Tiles in New Tab" article
Unreviewed   philipp corrected link to tiles article in a second location
Approved M philipp Updated link to article about new tab page
Approved M philipp based my previous submitted change on the wrong edit
Unreviewed   philipp fix {for} in webrtc section
Unreviewed   philipp update for webrtc for 42+
Unreviewed   philipp incorporate ping for heartbeat
Unreviewed   ideato fix philipp's "for" in tiles :-)
Unreviewed   philipp update on tiles behaviour
Approved   novica Rewrite search summary to less than 140 characters.
Approved M Lan Link correction
Approved M ideato update for 38
Approved M Tonnes use "Tools for all add-ons" to match "Add-ons that cause..." article (gear text -> icon)
Unreviewed   AliceWyman (edit based on last revision) updated link to renamed "Telemetry" article
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Extensions: Added warning on disabing add-on update checks; copied steps to disable add-on updates to "Auto-update checking" section
Approved M Tonnes icon-> panel, move commas, (web)site -> (web) page, Safe Mode link, add "the gear icon" (it's a tooltip), add stop/spae, Uppercase Sync, add "conversation" to partner, search-> search engine, add comma (that you), add "data"
Approved M philipp typo
Approved M AliceWyman fixed typo
Approved M AliceWyman added Wikipedia links for WebRTC, SSDP
Approved M philipp app reputation correction
Approved M philipp more changes (app reputation checks in fx38, search plugin icon loading, send video to device workaround in fx37, malware on all systems)
Unreviewed   AliceWyman workaround for bug 1142285 (see rewrite discussion) and other minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman fixed typos and other minor edits
Approved M AliceWyman shortened Intro, added "revoked certificates" {for fx37} to Blocklist warning
Approved M philipp minor change, hello landed in 34
Unreviewed   philipp some corrections
Unreviewed   philipp updated last bits of outstanding content
Unreviewed   philipp Updating more sections of the article (don't approve - still a draft!)
Unreviewed   philipp updated sections until down to firefox hello (still a draft - do not approve!)
Unreviewed   AliceWyman Rewrite draft (do not approve). see discussion
Approved M AliceWyman updated info on phishing and malware
Approved M AliceWyman edit to last revision, to reword warning
Approved M AliceWyman small edit to last revision
Approved M AliceWyman Blocklist updating: Stronger warning, added links
Approved M Tonnes fix Downloads window link name
Approved   user917725 removed Template:ShareArticle
Approved M Mike Cooper Remove support for Firefox 3.5
Approved M Michael Verdi Changed link to go directly to section about turning off new tab page thumbnails
Unreviewed   user832823 Adding New Tab Page thumbnails prefetching - fx22 update
Reviewed   andy747 Corrected disabling instructions for addons auto-update check (GUI option only tell Firefox to/not to install update automatically, update check will still be performed). PS:Why would i edit the temptate? It's not related to disabling addons update check.
Reviewed   andy747 1. Corrected disabling instructions for addons auto-update check (Update Add-ons Automatically GUI option only tell Firefox to/not to install update automatically, update check will still be performed); 2. Added DNS prefetching section.
Reviewed   Younghwan Kwon changing wrong section name
Approved M AliceWyman blocklist updating and metadata updating sections: changed "extension" to "add-on"; removed Live Title updating; Extensions section: Safe Mode "Disable all add-ons" info is {for not fx15}
Unreviewed   AliceWyman added "Extension metadata updating" section - see discussion. Also reordered to place "Extensions" section above the two extension updating sections
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Michael Verdi New 160 character search summary
Approved MT Michele Rodaro Reset All Add-ons to Update Automatically (it's "Automatically", not "Manually")
Approved M scoobidiver new update options, updates for add-ons, about:home makes no connections, Internet instead of internet
Approved M user66338 Change link prefetching FAQ URL
Approved M AliceWyman edit based on last revision to add "to open the [[Downloads window]]" after keyboard instructions
Approved M scoobidiver removed fx3 content and fx35 tag, fixed nested lists, note replaced by warning, Live Title obsolete since fx6, removed legitimately because of malware, removed Installed
Approved   Michael Verdi added summary and keywords
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias use browser.microsummary.enabled for live titles

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