On 1/30/19 8:00 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
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> So I ask: Why should firefox need to access the net to look at the
> hard drive in the laptop.
>
> Using Devuan Ascii and the firefox it provides.

All I can think of is Possibly a DNS query is waiting. Try running:
    tcpdump -nn -s0 -A -i wlan0_or_whatever_nic_you_want

when starting firefox. See if you can find a query going out on UDP port 53