Thursday, June 24, 2021

Re: iridium browser cache

On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 06:25:10AM +0200, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally I see in my query logs that iridium browser contacts an address
> called "cache.iridiumbrowser.de".
>
> Jun 25 06:16:31 eta delphinusdnsd[14254]: request on descriptor 24 interface "cnmac1" from 192.168.177.8 (ttl=64, region=255, tta=1.794ms) for "cache.iridiumbro
> wser.de." type=A(1) class=1, answering "FORWARD" (bytes=41/0, sum=a56)
>
> I've had some instability issues with iridium in the past and I'm wondering
> how I can turn this off. I guess they stripped all the google phone home
> stuff from chromium, and now do their own phone home.

Try turning off safe browsing.

https://github.com/iridium-browser/tracker/wiki/Differences-between-Iridium-and-Chromium#google-safe-browsing

>
> The fact that it says "cache" leaves my mind boggling.
>
> Best regards,
> -peter
>
> PS: other than firefox what are the alternatives to iridium on arm64 (rpi4)?
>

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