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Thunderbird Mail / geo.enable

user2451484
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Does anyone know what this does in t Thunderbird? Its under Options / Advanced / General / Config Editor and its set to enable obviously. I think I understand how it works in FF but not sure the purpose in TB. I was in there editing the user agent control to block outgoing agent that is no blocked at the server and i see the geo setting. not sure what this does.

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Does anyone know what this does in t Thunderbird? Its under Options / Advanced / General / Config Editor and its set to enable obviously. I think I understand how it works in FF but not sure the purpose in TB. I was in there editing the user agent control to block outgoing agent that is no blocked at the server and i see the geo setting. not sure what this does. Thanks,

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Thunderbird is largely based on Firefox code. So my best guess would be geo.enable does exactly the same as in Firefox.
I don't see how this would affect mail. However, it would possibly affect RSS feeds, as Thunderbird pretty much acts like a browser when showing RSS feed articles.

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christ1
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Thunderbird is largely based on Firefox code. So my best guess would be geo.enable does exactly the same as in Firefox.
I don't see how this would affect mail. However, it would possibly affect RSS feeds, as Thunderbird pretty much acts like a browser when showing RSS feed articles.

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user2451484
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Thanks makes sense I dont see the impact on mail either therefore the question. I tried sending mail to myself to review any changes in the header but I dont understand most of header data anyways to know if it has any effect; IP are already stripped. I turned the geo off anyway. I sort of take the reckless approach with anything that slows a system performance or compromises privacy when in question turn it off until something breaks.