{"id":6888,"date":"2012-10-02T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6888"},"modified":"2012-10-03T01:14:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T06:14:01","slug":"how-to-disable-google-safe-browsing-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6888","title":{"rendered":"How to disable Google safe Browsing in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To DISABLE:<\/p>\n

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  1. Type about:config<\/strong> in adressbar of Firefox.<\/li>\n
  2. Type safebrowsing<\/strong> in filterbar. Now Change the following Values<\/li>\n
  3. browser.safebrowsing.enabled FALSE<\/li>\n
  4. browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled FALSE<\/li>\n
  5. browser.safebrowsing.remoteLookups FALSE<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    How to disable Google safe Browsing in Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Thats all and the feature will be disabled now. Even though, My advice is not to disable it as Disabling it may increase the risk of getting infected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    And Firefox keeps phoning home for updates and turning it off in the options doesn’t stop it.\u00a0 Here’s a solution:<\/p>\n

    You can manually reset the Software Update feature by closing your Mozilla application and deleting the “updates” folder and the two files “active-update.xml” and “updates.xml”, which can be found in one of these locations (using Firefox as an example):<\/p>\n