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Month: October 2022

Why Does Firefox Ping or Reach Out to Amazon AWS Servers in the Background?

This question comes up quite a lot on message boards, Reddit, etc. and the answer is simple – if you use Firefox Sync like a lot of us do, Firefox grabs the favicon for your bookmarks in the background to a service or server hosted in Amazon’s massive AWS ecosystem. That’s it!

Posted on October 25, 2022Categories FirefoxLeave a comment on Why Does Firefox Ping or Reach Out to Amazon AWS Servers in the Background?
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