On 12/1/20 1:18 AM, home user wrote:
(on Mon, 2020-11-30 at 23:56 +0000, Ed wrote)
I thought you said your system was "quiet"?
For your "network activity" issue the lines of interest are those which include "ESTABLISHED" as the state.
It shows both "thunderbird" and "firefox" are both running and connected to hosts. So, one would expect some network activity
When I opened the thread this morning (hours ago), my system was quiet. When, several minutes ago, I did the netstat -atuevp whose output I attached to my reply to you and Tim, yes, Thunderbird and Firefox were running.
Check these packages' "Preferences->Privacy & Security" settings.
IIRC, Fedora's Mozilla packages have Mozilla's espionage (IMHO: mis-) features (aka. "telemetry", "data collection") enabled by default and therefore are phoning home under "the hood".
Ralf