Spying on File System

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Jonathan Moore

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Jan 16, 2025, 12:37:54 PM1/16/25
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Hi,

I would like to know what Browser extension is responsible for spying on my file system.

Thank You,

Jonathan M.

Tom Ritter

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Jan 16, 2025, 2:24:24 PM1/16/25
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Can you be more specific by what you mean when you say "spying on my file system"?  Do you have a strace log or something similar?  I can imagine a lot of reasons why Firefox may need to look at parts of your filesystem for reasons that aren't immediately obvious and seem expansive - such as reading /proc/ information, figuring out overall disk space usage, or registering for filesystem activity events with the OS.  If you have a specific activity we can dig into it.

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