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by OskarS 2582 days ago
I doubt it. I think these are for detecting whether or not you're in a "captive portal". I.e. airport wifi that requires you to enter login credentials or something.

But hey, give it a whirl: block detectportal.firefox.com with your hosts file and see what happens.

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I gave it a try, I didn't see any difference.