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Why does firefox try to connect to my own public IP on port 80?

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jaswinder6
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Whenever I open up firefox, firefox.exe attempts to connect to my own public IP on port 80. I confirmed this by issuing a 'netstat -b' on my computer. I was originally notified this was happening when every time I opened up firefox, my firewall would say "Deny IP due to Land Attack from <my_public_ip> to <my_public_ip>. This happens every time. All virus/malware scanners come up clean. Any idea why this is happening?

Whenever I open up firefox, firefox.exe attempts to connect to my own public IP on port 80. I confirmed this by issuing a 'netstat -b' on my computer. I was originally notified this was happening when every time I opened up firefox, my firewall would say "Deny IP due to Land Attack from <my_public_ip> to <my_public_ip>. This happens every time. All virus/malware scanners come up clean. Any idea why this is happening?

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cor-el
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jaswinder6
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Thanks. It turns out it was caused by the add-on 'noscript'.

From the developers comments:

IMPORTANT: before asking or commenting about the *completely anonymous* request made to https://secure.informaction.com/ipecho on startup, or the those sent to your own WAN IP periodically, please read about the WAN IP protection feature at http://noscript.net/abe/wan