User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Firefox/1.0.7 (Debian package 1.0.7-1) Hi, I have plenty RSS newsfeeds in my bookmarks, which causes some trouble: - They are continuously updated even if unused. This wastes bandwidth and fills logs. I sometimes use the Internet over mobile/GPRS, and then it causes real costs. - Even when I am in a foreign network (visiting a customer with my notebook), the RSS feeds are fetched and can trigger intrusion detection alerts. - Firefox pretty often hangs with full CPU load for some seconds. I suspect that this is somehow related with RSS fetches. - RSS can break SSL certificate selection (see Bug 315589) So my proposal is: Allow to turn off automatic RSS fetching. E.g. give a configuration option which allows to choose a mode where no RSS feed is ever fetched before the bookmark is accessed for the first time after firefox startup. Another method would be to never automatically update a RSS bookmark, only if it is accessed and outdated. regards Hadmut Reproducible: Always

Related to bug 287341 and bug 295758?

(In reply to comment #1) > Related to bug 287341 and bug 295758? > Maybe my proposal is also a solution for bug 295758. Although not related in the bug itself, it is related functionally. regards Hadmut

Hi, today Firefox again caused my *a lot* of trouble. I needed it to configure a network device over it's web server, while Firefox was restlessly trying to fetch the RSS feeds. So there are only two choices: Either not having RSS bookmarks at all, or having Firefox permanently causing unwanted traffic. This is highly annoying. Please stop automatic updating of RSS bookmarks. Furthermore it is a privacy problem. I can't connect to a foreign network without having all my bookmarks listed in the firewall's log files. regards Hadmut

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070626 Minefield/3.0a6pre ID:2007062604 closing as works for me Reporter, if you're still seeing this, please comment with details and reopen.