Bug: On all Firefox versions, firefox is making external connection in backend during the launch
Status: VERIFIED
Priority: --
Resolution: INVALID
Created: 2021-01-19 07:16:57+00:00
Resolved: 2021-02-05 12:39:57+00:00

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

In our project we display the node view with URL https://<node_ip:port>/ which will be done in firefox browser.
During this launch we could there are external IP connections from firefox


Actual results:

During the launch we could see many external IP connections from the deployment/VM, below are the list of some external IPs:
34.107.221.82
Hostname: 82.221.107.34.bc.googleusercontent.com

44.240.93.245
Hostname: ec2-44-240-93-245.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.35.6.89
Hostname: 82.221.107.34.bc.googleusercontent.com

54.186.24.65
Hostname: ec2-54-186-24-65.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.34.254.140
Hostname: ec2-52-34-254-140.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.10.174.113
Hostname: ec2-52-10-174-113.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

34.215.78.214
Hostname: ec2-34-215-78-214.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

44.231.216.202
Hostname: ec2-44-231-216-202.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.33.45.66
Hostname: ec2-52-33-45-66.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.10.162.146
Hostname: ec2-52-10-162-146.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

54.201.107.8
Hostname: ec2-54-201-107-8.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

34.211.246.164
Hostname: ec2-34-211-246-164.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.89.230.205
Hostname: ec2-52-89-230-205.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

35.244.247.133
Hostname: 133.247.244.35.bc.googleusercontent.com

52.39.2.52
Hostname: ec2-52-39-2-52.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

44.238.207.5
Hostname: ec2-44-238-207-5.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com


34.210.178.76
Hostname: ec2-34-210-178-76.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

13.249.112.123
Hostname: server-13-249-112-123.atl51.r.cloudfront.net

13.249.112.127
Hostname: server-13-249-112-127.atl51.r.cloudfront.net

13.249.112.79
Hostname: server-13-249-112-79.atl51.r.cloudfront.net

13.249.112.5
Hostname: server-13-249-112-5.atl51.r.cloudfront.net

52.35.83.137
Hostname: ec2-52-35-83-137.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

54.148.237.155
Hostname: ec2-54-148-237-155.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.89.14.226
Hostname: ec2-52-89-14-226.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

13.249.112.37
Hostname: server-13-249-112-37.atl51.r.cloudfront.net

34.223.172.12
Hostname: ec2-34-223-172-12.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.43.41.214
Hostname: ec2-52-43-41-214.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

34.210.106.102
Hostname: ec2-34-210-106-102.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

44.227.11.155
Hostname: ec2-44-227-11-155.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.36.207.147
Hostname: ec2-52-36-207-147.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

44.230.27.229
Hostname: ec2-44-230-27-229.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

34.209.110.60
Hostname: ec2-34-209-110-60.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.89.213.25
Hostname: ec2-52-89-213-25.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

52.42.72.107
Hostname: ec2-52-42-72-107.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com

44.239.250.14
Hostname: ec2-44-239-250-14.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com



Expected results:

During the launch of firefox for node view, external IP connections are not expected as it is a security violation