Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

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hack3rcon
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Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

Post by hack3rcon »

Hello.
Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic? For example, I browsed 10 pages via Firefox and it used 200 MB of my internet traffic but those websites via Google Chrome just used 10 MB of my internet traffic.

Why?

Thank you.
Brummelchen
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Re: Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

Post by Brummelchen »

Please post content from about:support, text, not raw.

Do you use onedrive?

Is that you?
https://www.camp-firefox.de/forum/viewt ... 3&t=126302
elist74
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Re: Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

Post by elist74 »

I guess about:studies (in the adress bar) can use trafic.
Brummelchen
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Re: Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

Post by Brummelchen »

this is bound to settings in about:preferences#privacy (scroll down to the telemetry settings, below permissions)
but this wont explain 190mb difference.
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therube
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Re: Why Firefox use a lot of internet traffic?

Post by therube »

I browsed 10 pages via Firefox and it used 200 MB of my internet traffic but those websites via Google Chrome just used 10 MB of my internet traffic.
How are you determining that?

(On Windows, you might use something like, Nirsoft: AppNetworkCounter.)
Fire 750, bring back 250.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Pinball CopyURL+ FetchTextURL FlashGot NoScript
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