Burp Suite: detectportal.firefox.com

by Vince
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This is one of those things that is pretty benign but just makes people crazy.  In the Burp Suite history, we repeatedly see entries for http://detectportal.firefox.com and the frequency is ridiculous.  I have this disabled in my c2 image but I hopped on a client's Kali install and there it was... tormenting me:





This is a simple fix, in the address bar, about:config.

Search for network.captive-portal-service.enabled:





Change the value from true to false:





That's it.  Annoying messages gone forever.  Hope this helps.