[dba-Tech] Browser related question

Hi Mark

Women lie.
Or perhaps FB records your outside IP address.

/gustav


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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Mark Breen
Sendt: 13. juni 2014 10:09
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: [dba-Tech] Browser related question

Hello All,

I installed Linux last night on a new PC.  Formatted it and installed and went to bed.  All rest of family already gone to bed.

Powered on this morning, logged into a couple of my gmail accounts.  Only mine.

then opened facebook and when I clicked into the Username box, I was offered a DDL with my wifes email address.  As if it was a recently used email.

Because it is a scary looking machine with the cover off, and because it is linux, and because I asked her, I am 100% sure she did not even notice the machine.

So the question is, how does Firefox / facebook know that the email address is associated with this house.  Cannot be associated with the pc because the pc is new.

I have noticed the same thing happening on other PC's of mine, I sometimes see people that I know, but never met as DDL's in the list login names.  I guess it is browser related but it weirds me out.

I thought it may have been using recent people I have emailed, but this PC is only a few hours old, so I am really surprised.

Any thoughts ?


BTW, it is an i7 proc, and the machine is totally silent.  No moving parts at all.  Running at 43 degrees C.