<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div id="yiv2879970780"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv2879970780yui_3_16_0_7_1402651895844_5">Hi FF devs!<br><br>Why does Firefox produce a PREF cookie for google.com?<br><br>Steps to reproduce:<br>- Take clean FF30<br>- disable cookies at all<br>- disable safe-browsing at all<br>- go to about:config, type "google", delete every google stuff at all<br>- remove your LAN cable/disable WLAN (go physically offline!)<br>- open only a empty tab (disable the links)<br>- delete all cookies in Firefox, history as well<br>- close and re-open only the cookie list window<br>- discover a google.com cookie with the name of "PREF" and
content of unique ID's<br><br>What's going on here, why does Firefox create this cookie without connecting ever to google.com? You know, exactly this cookie is also used by NSA?<br><br>Regards,<br>A concerned user<br id="yiv2879970780yui_3_16_0_7_1402651895844_4"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>